Contraption

[kən'træpʃ(ə)n] or [kən'træpʃən]

Definition

n. (U.S.) a contrivance.

Editor: Rae

Examples

His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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