contingency plan

noun

1. a course of action to be followed if a preferred plan fails or an existing situation changes.

2. a plan or procedure that will take effect if an emergency occurs; emergency plan.

Example Sentences

This was laid out in a contingency plan issued the day before the shutdown began.

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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan could be imperiled by rigid government-imposed conditions on a contingency plan for reducing the blue-helmet force there, a senior UN official warned Tuesday.

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The disappearance of the contingency plan from the USDA’s site counters Vice President J.D.

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This might explain the promiscuity of recent Hatch Act violations — the USDA’s erasure of its contingency plan suggests an administration that knows they have blameshifted too close to the sun.

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He said an NI contingency plan is being updated at the moment and the draft plan will be shared with the UBKA.

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