English-Spanish translations for contrive

• idear
• improvisar
  En primer lugar, no puedo consentir que se diga en esta Cámara que la Mesa improvisaría, en la urgencia, con la inyección a finales de año de los capitales que no hayamos sabido utilizar. Firstly, I do not wish to let it be said in this Chamber that, at the end of the year, the Bureau might urgently contrive an injection of the capital that we were unable to use.

Definition of contrive

• To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise
• To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation
• To spend (time, or a period

Related words

• contrivance
• contrived
• contriver