Thesaurus: contrivance

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1. n. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
2. n. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
3. n. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
4. n. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
5. n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
6. n. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
7. n. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
8. n. the act of devising something
9. 1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke. Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.
10. n:100 n. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade n. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.