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US
/dɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪvˈaɪzɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪvˈaɪzɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act that results in something coming to be
it was already in the making
the making of measurements
the fashioning of pots and pans
the devising of plans
How To Use devising In A Sentence
- By the 3rd millennium B.C., they had developed a primitive form of cost accounting, elaborate techniques of budgeting and planning, and calculative techniques for devising labor standards.
- Wineries are also devising strategies, along with restaurateurs and retailers, to get more people to think about wine.
- the devising of plans
- Given its inherent curiosity, even the simplest mind will exhaust itself devising solutions to challenges it confronts.
- I took special pleasure in rocking in the chair the hospital had provided, singing a song of my own devising to Elijah. Sound Politics: The Unbearable Hipness Of Slackerdad
- They are devising a road system.
- You know the food is really good when a bunch of foodies are devising clever ways to abscond with a whoopie pie after an epic 20-dish meal. Foodies Feast, Family-Style
- We are also devising strategies to produce medicines from urine.
- He excels at devising patterns of language and imagery, elaborating them down to minute detail, and sustaining them all through a play or a trilogy.
- Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation