contingency fee

1. 1.

   a fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services)

   Broaderfee

Questions about contingency fee

What does contingency fee mean?

contingency fee means "a fee that is payable only if the outcome is successful (as for an attorney's services)".

Is contingency fee a common word?

contingency fee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.