verb (formal)
1 [Vtoinf] to manage to do sth in spite of difficulties:
She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening. * Somehow they contrived to live on her tiny income.
2 [VN] to succeed in making sth happen in spite of difficulties:
I decided to contrive a meeting between the two of them.
3 [VN] to think of or make sth, for example a plan or a machine, in a clever way:
They contrived a plan to defraud the company.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for contrive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does contrive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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