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 con·triv·ance /kənˈtraɪvən(t)s/
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 Con·triv·ance n.
 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; artifice; 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.
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 contrivance
      n 1: a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance,
            contraption, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo,
            widget]
      2: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful
         contrivance of answers to every problem"
      3: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or
         evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us
         off the track" [syn: stratagem, dodge]
      4: an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived
         arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained
         too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
      5: any improvised arrangement for temporary use [syn: lash-up]
      6: the act of devising something [syn: devisal]