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General (8 matching dictionaries)

1. contrivances: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. contrivances: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
3. contrivances: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
4. Contrivances, contrivances: Wordnik [home, info]
5. contrivances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
6. contrivances: Wiktionary [home, info]
7. contrivances: Dictionary.com [home, info]
8. contrivances: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

9. contrivances: Legal dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (contrivance) ▸ noun:  the faculty of contriving; inventive skill ("His skillful contrivance of answers to every problem") ▸ noun:  an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. ("The plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable") ▸ noun:  an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade ("His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track") ▸ noun:  the act of devising something ▸ noun:  any improvised arrangement for temporary use ▸ noun:  a device that is very useful for a particular job ▸ Also see contrivance ▸ Words similar to contrivances ▸ Usage examples for contrivances ▸ Popular adjectives describing contrivances ▸ Words that often appear near contrivances ▸ Rhymes of contrivances ▸ Invented words related to contrivances