contingency

  • 111contingency graph — A plot of the net profit to a speculator in currency options under various exchange rate scenarios. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …

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  • 112contingency order — In the context of general equities, order to buy one security, if the trader can sell another, usually given that certain price limits or conditions reach a certain level. swap, switch order. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …

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  • 113contingency fee — con tingency ,fee noun count a payment for the services of a lawyer that you make only if the lawyer wins in court …

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  • 114contingency theory — A strand of organization theory (sometimes also known as the ‘rational systems perspective’), the leading practitioners of which were Tom Burns, Joan Woodward , Paul Lawrence, and Jay Lorsch, an otherwise theoretically eclectic group who were… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 115contingency fee — вознаграждение, выплачиваемое юристу в случае успешного исхода процесса, который он вел в качестве представителя стороны по делу, так называемый гонорар успеха . В сфере международного арбитража ведущими юридическими фирмами не используется. В… …

    Glossary of international commercial arbitration

  • 116contingency rating — A power rating on helicopters or vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL), which is resorted to in an emergency, such as when one engine fails. Special checks are required on engine(s) after this rating has been used beyond a stipulated… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 117contingency plan — cotton n …

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  • 118contingency table — noun Statistics a table showing the distribution of one variable in rows and another in columns, used to study the correlation between the two …

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  • 119contingency theory of management accounting — The theory that there is no single management accounting system acceptable to all organizations or any system that is satisfactory in all circumstances in a single organization. Consequently, accounting systems are contingent upon the… …

    Accounting dictionary

  • 120contingency insurance — An insurance policy covering financial losses occurring as a result of a specified event happening. The risks covered by policies of this kind are various and often unusual, such as a missing documents indemnity, the birth of twins, or pluvial… …

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