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General (26 matching dictionaries)

1. contrivance: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. contrivance: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. contrivance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. contrivance: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. contrivance: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. contrivance: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Contrivance, contrivance: Wordnik [home, info]
8. contrivance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. contrivance: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. contrivance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. contrivance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. contrivance: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Contrivance, contrivance: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. contrivance: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. Contrivance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
16. contrivance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
17. contrivance: Rhymezone [home, info]
18. Contrivance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
19. contrivance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
20. contrivance: Free Dictionary [home, info]
21. contrivance: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
22. contrivance: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
23. contrivance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
24. contrivance: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

25. contrivance: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

26. contrivance: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

27. contrivance: Evolution Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by 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 contrivances ▸ Words similar to contrivance ▸ Usage examples for contrivance ▸ Popular adjectives describing contrivance ▸ Words that often appear near contrivance ▸ Rhymes of contrivance ▸ Invented words related to contrivance