CONTINGENCY


Meaning of CONTINGENCY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Civil Contingencies Committee, the

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

social

The self-knower is almost always a product of social contingencies , but the self that is known may come from other sources.

Without help a person acquires very little moral or ethical behavior under either natural or social contingencies .

If you are reinforced in the social contingencies maintained for purposes of control.

■ NOUN

approach

Unlike systems theory, the contingency approach examines particular organisations.

fee

His home, law firm and love life were all sacrificed to the case which was brought on a contingency fee basis.

A standard contingency fee is 33 percent to 40 percent.

It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.

Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees .

A review of contingency fees was undertaken and research on commercial legal expenses insurance was published.

Californians also turned down Proposition 202, a proposal to limit lawyers' contingency fees and encourage early settlement of lawsuits.

The contingency fee usually sorts out the questionable cases to begin with.

A substantial percentage of these lawsuits are brought by attorneys working on a contingency fee basis.

fund

Firms need to include a contingency fund within the budget.

The plan, however, would create a $ 1 billion contingency fund for states that needed additional money.

Mr. Kimber said the parish councils were now recommended to hold a contingency fund within their budget to deal with such problems.

Alternatively, departments have an allocation, while the library retains a generous contingency fund .

plan

The three A's must be making some contingency plans .

Anticipating the possibility of such a crisis, G Group several months earlier had drawn up a contingency plan .

Supt Peter Durham from Newcastle city centre will address staff on how contingency plans can be properly arranged for Newcastle.

It had developed contingency plans before the incident and put them into effect when water in the mine began to overflow.

The agents are intelligent because they have contingency plans of action.

Next, specific action may be agreed upon that is realistic and measurable with perhaps a contingency plan lined up too.

City officials have implemented what they call Phase I of a contingency plan aimed at bringing pollution levels down.

table

The techniques of control used in contingency tables involved literally holding a variable constant by considering its categories one at a time.

Ratios between two proportions are not, however, regularly used in analysing contingency tables .

The techniques to be presented in this chapter are designed to examine the relationship between three variables in a contingency table .

In social research this is the basic structure of the cross-tabulation or contingency table .

theory

They have trained-in a succession of concepts over the years: decision making, then situational leadership, and then contingency theory .

Fiedler went on to develop his contingency theory in A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness.

■ VERB

arrange

A person does not support his government because he is loyal but because the government has arranged special contingencies .

Again he oversaw every detail, planned every step, arranged for any contingency , left nothing to others.

make

The three A's must be making some contingency plans.

However, I have made contingency plans.

An hour maybe and you are making contingency plans.

meet

Self-knowledge is valuable only to the extent that it helps to meet the contingencies under which it has arisen.

The Collector had fortunately laid a plan to meet this contingency .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A will should allow for contingencies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But order there is and Hughes could find it as statuses established by social requirements. and in what Hughes calls contingencies.

City officials have implemented what they call Phase I of a contingency plan aimed at bringing pollution levels down.

Essentially they were informal contingency exchanges whose future character would be determined by perceptions of Soviet actions and intentions.

Firms need to include a contingency fund within the budget.

It concluded that the private contingency plans between presidents and their vice presidents since Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon in 1957 are inadequate.

Supt Peter Durham from Newcastle city centre will address staff on how contingency plans can be properly arranged for Newcastle.

The three A's must be making some contingency plans.

What must be changed are the contingencies which induce young people to behave in given ways towards their governments.

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