Contingency vs Planning - What's the difference?
contingency | planning |
(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.
(uncountable) action of the verb to plan
the act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans
the act of making contingency plans
(informal, British) planning permission
In context|uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between contingency and planning
is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while planning is (uncountable) action of the verb to plan .As nouns the difference between contingency and planning
is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while planning is (uncountable) action of the verb to plan .As a verb planning is
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(wikipedia contingency)Noun
Synonyms
* (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 planplanning
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Verb
(head)Noun
- My neighbours were going to build an extension but they didn't get planning .