contingency plan

noun

: a plan that can be followed if an original plan is not possible for some reason

Examples of contingency plan in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Secretary of State's office also released a contingency plan spelling out exactly how a statewide hand recount would be run if Lindell posts the bond by Monday's deadline. — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Ellison, having just migrated Paramount out of New York last year, didn’t consider this the optimal time for a move but needed a contingency plan so the numbers on the merger made more sense, according to a person familiar with the situation. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026

For any team aiming lower than Hunter Goodman, Shea Langeliers, Adley Rutschman or Jeffers, Bo Naylor could work as a contingency plan. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 July 2026

When titles started disappearing from their digital collections, however, those dusty stacks reemerged as both a critical contingency plan and material proof that the media business was changing. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026

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