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

The FAA said it has long had such contingency plans in place in case of emergencies.

From Washington Post

Smith said he’d had no conversations with the league about any contingency plans involving the playoffs or Super Bowl being pushed back.

From Washington Post

As a contingency plan, Dwayne Haskins spent the majority of the week preparing to start for the second consecutive game.

From Washington Post

Modernization is critical for an industry that still mostly runs on spreadsheets and collective knowledge that has locked in an aging employee base, with no contingency plans in the event of retirement, Lambert said.

From TechCrunch

Ghaly said hospitals have been making contingency plans to activate “crisis care teams,” which would make the difficult decisions of prioritizing care among sick patients should facilities become overwhelmed.

From Fortune

When the first aircraft went down, Nixon said, they had a contingency plan, and they started putting it into place.

From The Daily Beast

Does the administration have a contingency plan if those aren't ready, either?

From The Daily Beast

“We have contingency plan after contingency plan,” says Buckhorn.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, it appears to be part of a contingency plan in case Abbas feels he has exhausted his political options.

From The Daily Beast

The Defense Department even drew up a contingency plan for a U.S.-Egyptian attack on Libya, Gates remembers in the book.

From The Daily Beast