The meaning of CONTRIVE is devise, plan. How to use contrive in a sentence.

Inventing, designing and innovation (Definition of contrive from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

CONTRIVE definition: to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent. See examples of contrive used in a sentence.

1. (tr) to manage (something or to do something), esp by means of a trick; engineer: he contrived to make them meet. 2. (tr) to think up or adapt ingeniously or elaborately: he contrived a new …

If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.

Definition of contrive verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. contrive to do something to manage to do something despite difficulties. She contrived to spend a couple of …

Dec 14, 2025 · From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver). contrive (third-person singular …

When you contrive, you make a plan or a plot. It may take you longer to contrive your way out of doing your homework than would to actually do it. Even though contrive often has a false or …

[~ + object] to plan with great cleverness; figure out; invent: They managed to contrive a means of escape. [~ + to + verb] to bring about by a plan, scheme, etc.; find a way to do something, esp. …

CONTRIVE meaning: 1 : to form or think of (a plan, method, etc.); 2 : to form or make (something) in a skillful or clever way