Word for out of control

I’m looking for a word that defines that something is out of our control in a business sense. For example, we can’t control the postal delivery time, so it is… (out of our control).
Needs to be ONE word, please.

EDIT — not uncontrollable. It is also not chaotic, like «the children are out of control».

EDIT2: — to further explain, in my thesis I have a number of dependencies. Most of them our company can control as we manage them. However, a few of these dependencies we are not able to control because they are managed by someone else. So I’m looking to see if there is a word that can explain this other than saying «dependencies that are out of our control».

asked Apr 10, 2013 at 17:48

If you are writing a contract, I think there are multi-word possibilities your attorneys can supply, but the one word I can think of closest to what you want is exogenous.

Inevitable has two senses that might work well:

1. Impossible to avoid or prevent. [eg] We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

2. Predictable, or always happening. [eg] My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.

In a business context you might speak of a foregone conclusion (“A predictable or inevitable conclusion…”).

Predetermined, simple past tense and past participle of predetermine (“To determine or decide in advance”) might also work.

Also fated (“Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate”).

I think foreordain (“To predestine or preordain”) is seen less commonly than is preordain (“To determine the fate of something in advance”). Forms of the verbs predetermine, predestine, foreordain, preordain and in some cases ordain (in sense “to prearrange unalterably” or in sense “to predestine”), often are used of things that are avolitional, that is, not under the control of whatever parties are involved.

Also consider mandatory (“Obligatory; required or commanded by authority”), involuntary (“Not voluntary or willing…”), and obligatory.

answered Apr 10, 2013 at 18:43

answered Apr 10, 2013 at 18:26

Independent variables affecting your system from the outside are inputs. Input parameters which are quasi-constant (do not change often) are given. E.g. you don’t control some tax rate, but it is given. It does not fluctuate, like mail delivery times.

An external influence is imposed. (We are forced to accomodate to it, rather than manipulating it to suit our convenience).

«We don’t control the tax rate; it is {given / imposed (on us)}.»

«We can’t control postal delivery times, they are imposed (on us).»

answered Apr 10, 2013 at 22:10

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