0 the act of intentionally arranging for something to happen by clever planning, or something that is arranged in this way:
The alleged contrivance was that the defendant in each of the cases was telling an untruth about himself in the description in his nomination paper.
Clay is always clay, and the steam driven contrivance that will mould a basin while a man sits and watches has yet to be invented.
At the present time, when the manufacture has attained a mature growth, all the operations, with vastly increased means and more complex contrivances, are again performed in a single building.
There is good reason for this apparent contrivance.
The whole complex of these contrivances is technology.
This contrivance smoothed land thus facilitating seed covering.
Some impression of significant movement had to be given, even if this involved a degree of contrivance.
These rights are never given by nature, but are rather the result of social - and normally governmental - contrivance.
