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AH020387 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Contingency

Contingency means 'dependence'?
  

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Sort of, yes. It has two definitions. The one we hear most often does appear to be "dependence" (as in, when we say, "X is contingent upon Y"). But it also means:

a possible but unlikely occurence or future event, or a future emergency.

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