contingency
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
Let me explain our contingency should the first approach not work as hoped.
Business noun
A future event that may or may not occur and against which cover or provision is arranged.
The event organiser bought cover against the contingency of cancellation due to severe weather.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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