contingency

éventualité, imprévu

Événement possible, surtout un problème ou une dépense auxquels il faut se préparer.

En anglais simple : Something that might happen, especially a problem or expense you need to prepare for.

• We need a contingency plan.
• Keep some money aside for unexpected contingencies.
• The team tried to prepare for every contingency.

Comment l'utiliser : allow for a contingency (The budget allows for contingencies such as equipment repairs.)

Synonymes : possibility, eventuality

Expressions courantes : contingency plan, contingency fund, every contingency

contingence

Fait qu’une chose dépend du hasard ou de conditions qui pourraient être différentes.

En anglais simple : The fact that something depends on chance or on conditions that could be different.

• Their account emphasizes the contingency of historical events.
• The philosopher contrasted contingency with necessity.
• Contingency means that a different outcome was possible.

Synonymes : possibility, unpredictability, option, choice

Contraires : necessity

Expressions courantes : historical contingency, contingency of something

pénalité contractuelle

Somme qu’une partie doit verser à l’autre si elle ne respecte pas ses obligations contractuelles.

En anglais simple : Money one side must pay the other if it fails to do what a contract requires.

• The supplier had to pay a contingency.
• The contract sets the contingency at ten thousand euros.
• Failure to finish the project triggered a contingency payment.

Synonymes : contractual penalty

Expressions courantes : pay a contingency, contractual contingency, contingency payment

proposition contingente

Énoncé qui peut être vrai ou faux, sans être toujours vrai ni toujours faux.

En anglais simple : A statement that can be true or false, rather than always true or always false.

• This statement is a contingency.
• A contingency has both true and false entries in its truth table.
• Students must distinguish a contingency from a contradiction.

Synonymes : contingent proposition

Expressions courantes : logical contingency, contingency in logic