contrivance
I
noun
artifice, collusion, complicity, connivance, craft, deception, design, designing power, device, dodge, engineering, excogitatio, intrigue, inventio, invention, inventiveness, machination, maneuver, manipulation, means to an end, mechanism, method, plan, plot, scheme, stratagem, strategics, subterfuge, tactics, wile, wily device
II
index
appliance, arrangement (plan), artifice, collusion, conduit (channel), connivance, conspiracy, expedient, facility (instrumentality), instrument (tool), invention, loophole, machination, ploy, project, resource, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tool
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006