"contingency money" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a sum of money set aside for unexpected or unforeseen expenses or events. Example: "We had to dip into our contingency money to cover the cost of repairing the car after it broke down on our road trip."
There are professional divisions at Kartweek, with prize and contingency money available.
Transport swallows another £863m.Although the ODA has made savings, it has had to use a chunk of its contingency money.
The safe, according to Bonhams literature, was intended to hold contingency money for family members of hunting assistants killed in the bush.
CONTINGENCY MONEY -- The county, at the direction of the state oversight board, will establish a $10 million rainy day fund for each of the four years.
Sources close to the committee believe these extras will ultimately end up costing more than £100m, though this will be covered by what is known as the "contingency" – money for unexpected changes that are common in major construction projects.
Lee Johnson has been aware since before Christmas that there was the offer of contingency money from the father of the player's fiancée and three of his associates – "a raft" – to smooth the way.
The PAC report states: "The affordability of the Equipment Plan is at greater risk than at any time since its inception". Nearly all the contingencies money has been exhausted, yet much of the programme involves essential new equipment whose cost, experience shows, is likely to grow.
A. No. Contingency planning costs money; the government loses fees and charges that go uncollected; and, to judge by history, furloughed workers will eventually receive their back pay.
Labor has not set aside any contingency or extra money to cover its extra hospital funding in its 10-year costings.
Democrats hold that the contingency fund includes money that should be earmarked for Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
But on Monday Labor clarified its long-term costings would not contain any provision or contingency for extra money for hospitals – beyond the current four year deal – because a longer-term agreement would have to be negotiated with the states, whichever party won on 2 July.
