Contingency
Plan
Plan noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.
Contingency is an antonym for plan.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In the Anno Dracula series, an alternate version of the Diogenes Club faced just such a contingency, and Charles Beauregard was a key player in Mycroft Holmes's plan for dealing with it.
Source: Literature / Diogenes Club - Old Snake stopped Ocelot and prevented JD's nuking, but since it is Ocelot, it was either part of the plan or he had a contingency for such an occassion.
Source: You Are Too Late - Despite carrying around reams of paper and Max trying to tell him that he can't possibly plan for every contingency, the plans do wind up saving him when he's attacked by a helicopter — by clogging up its intakes while he furiously searched for his plan on defending himself from a helicopter.
Source: Crazy Prepared / Comic Books
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