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English to English noun
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a device or control that is very useful for a particular job |  | source: wordnet30
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the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | | Example: his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
source: wordnet30
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an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | | Example: his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
source: wordnet30
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an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | | Example: the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
source: wordnet30
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any improvised arrangement for temporary use | | source: wordnet30
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the act of devising something | | source: wordnet30
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The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. | | source: webster1913
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