contrivance
noun
[ kənˈtrʌɪv(ə)ns ]
• the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.
• "the requirements of the system, by happy chance and some contrivance, can be summed up in an acronym"
Similar:
scheme,
stratagem,
tactic,
manoeuvre,
move,
course/line of action,
plan,
ploy,
gambit,
device,
wile,
trick,
ruse,
plot,
machination,
subterfuge,
artifice,
expedient,
wheeze,
lurk,
shift,
fetch,
• a device, especially in literary or artistic composition, which gives a sense of artificiality.
• "the often tiresome contrivances of historical fiction"
