Contingency vs Occurrence - What's the difference?
contingency | occurrence |
(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
(countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
Actual instance where a situation arises.
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As nouns the difference between contingency and occurrence
is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while occurrence is actual instance where a situation arises.contingency
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(wikipedia contingency)Noun
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* (quality of happening by chance) possibility * See alsoAntonyms
* (quality of happening by chance) inevitability, impossibilityCoordinate terms
* (statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction) contradiction, tautologyDerived terms
* contingency planoccurrence
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