English-French translations for contingency

• éventualité
  par écrit. - (DE) L'acquis de Schengen est une question très sensible et nous devons pouvoir parer à toute éventualité. in writing. - (DE) The Schengen acquis is a particularly sensitive area in which we must be able to respond to any contingency.
  Ces bouleversements ont surpris tout le monde, et aucun plan d'urgence ne semble avoir été prévu pour une telle éventualité, qui n'est pas localisée mais bien généralisée. The turmoil has taken everyone by surprise and it does not seem that any contingency plan was made for such an eventuality, which is not localised but widespread.
• contingence

Definition of contingency

• The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
• An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification

Related words

• contingence
• contingency table
• contingency plan
• contingency coefficient
• coefficient of contingency