Hyphenation of contrivances

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word contrivances? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of contrivances:

1.	A device or control that is very useful for a particular job
2.	The faculty of contriving Inventive skill His skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
3.	An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
4.	An artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. The plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
5.	Any improvised arrangement for temporary use
6.	The act of devising something

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