Category: C
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Continuation rate
In family planning, pertaining to the percentage of women who continue to use a contraceptive device after a specified period of time.
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Contingent condition
In research, a condition that is necessary for an effort to occur but not sufficient to make it appear.
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Contingency theory of leadership
A leadership concept that hypothesizes that in any given leadership situation, success is primarily determined by the following: (a) the degree to which the task being performed by the following is structured, (b) the degree of the position power possessed by the leader, and (c) the type of relationship that exists between leader and followers.…
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Contingency theory
There is not one best way to handle a problem. Concerns the determination of technique or approach that will work best under a given set of circumstances.
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Contingency fund
Money appropriated by the respect houses for incidental operating expenses.
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Contingency contracting
A procedure in which treatment or education personnel writes specific agreements with students or clients that specify the amount and kind of behavior necessary to obtain a reward.
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Contingency approach to management
Managing approach that emphasizes that what managers do in practice depends upon a given set of circumstances or situation.
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Contingency
A relationship between events in which one event is dependent upon the other event.
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Continence
A state of exercising self-restraint, especially in regard to the sex drive. The ability to control the discharge of urine and faeces. Self-restraint, used especially in reference to refraining from sexual intercourse, and to the ability to control urination and defecation. Exhibiting self-control; the capacity of the bowel or urinary bladder to retain their contents.…
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Contiguity
The togetherness in time of two events that is sometimes interpreted as the condition that leads to association.