Stipulation vs Contingency - What's the difference?
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The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
(botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
(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.
As nouns the difference between stipulation and contingency
is that stipulation is the act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement while contingency is the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.stipulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.
- If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.