0 present participle of contrive
1 to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning:
In some cases this necessitated nurses 'managing the environment' by contriving situations in which they could speak to family members when the patient was not present.
I cannot conceive of any such very small traders as those contriving to get supplies for themselves.
This is a wonderful example of the contriving genius of our planners.
We are contriving to ignore a major reality for young people, which is their entitlement to student grants and, above all, to housing benefit.
He has achieved the unique distinction after taking part in a somewhat ignominious retreat, of contriving, nevertheless, to remain at his post.
We are contriving and conniving at undermining parents.
However, it was a hole of its own contriving.
Therefore, our objective must be the outlawing of aggression, and the contriving of a comprehensive scheme of disarmament.
