How to pronounce“contrivance”in English
about the individual and free speech and everyone working together to further a society and he told her that you know you know free speech is a bourgeois
contrivance and regardless you can't have these circumstances in the midst of a revolution and when she left the soviet union and you know she went to
britain and at the time before the 1917 there was a lot of discussion among socialist circles about what would the revolution look like right would there
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Definitions of “contrivance”
A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
“I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on your kindness, as I hope you will be with me, and also Mr. and Mrs. Gooch. You must arrange in such a manner as not to blush for your own contrivances.”
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