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Credits vs Contingency - What's the difference?

credits | contingency |

As nouns the difference between credits and contingency

is that credits is plural of lang=en while contingency is the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.

As a verb credits

is third-person singular of credit.

credits

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (credit)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    contingency

    English

    (wikipedia contingency)

    Noun

  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of happening by chance) possibility * See also

    Antonyms

    * (quality of happening by chance) inevitability, impossibility

    Coordinate terms

    * (statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction) contradiction, tautology

    Derived terms

    * contingency plan