Noun: contrivance kun'trI-vun(t)s
- The act of devising something
"The contrivance of a new marketing strategy took several brainstorming sessions";
- devisal
- The faculty of contriving; inventive skill
"his skilful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- Any improvised arrangement for temporary use
"They created a contrivance to fix the broken pipe until a plumber could arrive";
- lash-up [informal]
- An artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
"the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
"his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track";
- stratagem, dodge [informal]
Derived forms: contrivances
Type of: arrangement, conception, design, excogitation, fiction, innovation, invention, organisation [Brit], organization, scheme, strategy, system