contingency account
noun[C]
ACCOUNTINGukus→contingency fund
Examplesofcontingency account
contingency account
It is poor engineering and poor philosophy to make second-rate estimates and then try to satisfy them by using a largecontingencyaccount.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.No specialcontingencyaccountexists.
From the
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The receipts for the year were £7280, including £500 oncontingencyaccount.
FromProject Gutenberg
Interpreted as a claim about what color vision tells us about the world, ecological and sensorimotor contingency accounts appear to conflate the sources of color information with color information itself.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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- potential exploitation
- potential exploitation
- potential exposure
- potential failure
- potential fraud
- potential fraud
- potential habitat
- potential harm
- potential hazard
- potential heir
- potential impact
- potential implication
- potential improvement
- potential influence
- potential instability
- potential interaction
- poop-sheet
- poor
- poor adherence
- poor appetite
- poor attendance
- poor choice
- poor circulation
- poor compliance
- poor comprehension