different between stipulation vs contingency

English

Etymology

From Latin stipul?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?p.j??le?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

stipulation (plural stipulations)

1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
2. Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
3. (botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
4. (chess) A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

Related terms

• stipulate

Translations

English

Etymology

contingent +? -cy (16th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nd??nsi/

Noun

contingency (countable and uncountable, plural contingencies)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability. [1560s]
2. (countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. [1610s]
3. (finance, 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.
4. (logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

Synonyms

• (quality of happening by chance): possibility
• See also Thesaurus:option

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

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