contingency fund

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noun Accounting.

money or securities set aside to cover unexpected conditions or losses in business, usually supplementing a contingency reserve.

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Origin of contingency fund

First recorded in 1880–85

Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism|Louise I. Shelley|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And from there, the letter asked for money for a legal defense fund.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.
Merry Christmas, Defense Contractors!|Veronique de Rugy|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, as attendees noted to The Daily Beast, legislators go to ALEC to find ways to fund their campaigns.
The Left’s Answer to ALEC|Ben Jacobs|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Not to mention the revenue that will be generated by this, which then can be used to fund education and health care.
Tribes to U.S. Government: Take Your Weed and Shove It|Abby Haglage|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The presence of a large gold fund was an assurance of the ability to return to specie payments after the close of the war.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
From affluence he came to want, and in his old age a fund was raised sufficient to purchase him an annuity of £600 a year.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
(d) Excess balances may, at the convenience of each federal reserve bank, remain deposited with the gold settlement fund.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
We should raise a goodly sum of money this winter toward the building fund.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
The painful contingency of continued bad seasons has thus, in some measure, been provided against.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various