Ethics: Contingency Fees For Lobbyists. Contingency fees are often paid to lawyers-in medical malpractice cases, for example. If a lawyer and client agree to do business on a contingency basis, the client pays no fees until the case is won, and at that time the lawyer gets a cut of the damages won.
Means: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial. (thank you actual dictionary.com) Anyways, I put in in here, because it's really, really long. Um, floccinaucinihilipilification is kind of hard to work into a sentance.
An adjective, noun, and verb all rolled into one, forfeit came into existence around 1300 meaning âto lose by misconduct.â To forfeit is to lose or give up something as punishment for making an error. A forfeit is what is lost.