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con·tin·gency plan·ning

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  1. contingency planning

    A contingency plan, also known colloquially as Plan B, is a plan devised for an outcome other than in the usual (expected) plan. It is often used for risk management for an exceptional risk that, though unlikely, would have catastrophic consequences.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. contingency planning

    The Joint Operation Planning and Execution System planning activities that occur in noncrisis situations. The Joint Planning and Execution Community uses contingency planning to develop operation plans for a broad range of contingencies based on requirements identified in the Contingency Planning Guidance, Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan, or other planning directive. Contingency planning underpins and facilitates the transition to crisis action planning.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of contingency planning in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of contingency planning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of contingency planning in a Sentence

  1. Allen Sills:

    We do have some contingency planning, weve had it all year, and they are first driven by medical safety. Can we operate in the market in a way that is consistent with what we are doing and have been doing? Some of our clubs who have been operating in areas of high numbers of cases of the disease, those clubs have managed to avoid positive tests. That speaks to the hard work they are doing and care they are taking every day. So we will continue to follow that same road map. It has been a sound game plan. Have to continue to execute in the same manner that we have executed so far.

  2. Rod Hochman:

    On the West Coast we're planning -- we're counting every ventilator we have, we're counting every ICU bed, we're doing contingency planning for worst-case scenarios.

  3. Vladimir Putin:

    There is a minimum safety level of delivery in place already, but the NHS will look at all contingency planning.

  4. Dominic Raab:

    We ... hope that it (Thomas Cook) can continue but in any event, as you would expect, we've got the contingency planning in place to make sure that in any worst-case scenario we can support all those who might otherwise be stranded.

  5. Simon Coveney:

    While we have a huge amount of contingency planning in place ... I wouldn't like to give the impression that we could easily manage a no-deal Brexit, it would put huge strain on the Irish economy.

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