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noun : CONTRIVANCE
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job ;
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2. (
) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem" ;
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3. (
) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" ;
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4. (
) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable" ;
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5. (
) any improvised arrangement for temporary use ;
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6. (
) the act of devising something ;
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