Contingency and Plan

Contingency

Contingency noun - Something that might happen.

Plan is an antonym for contingency in possibility topic.

Nearby Words: contingent, contingently

Plan

Plan noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.

Contingency is an antonym for plan.

Nearby Words: plant, planned, planed, planner, planing

How words are described

single single contingency single plan
secret secret contingency secret plan
ultimate ultimate contingency ultimate plan
final final contingency final plan

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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