Usually means: Achievement through resourceful skill, enterprise.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. chevisance: Merriam-Webster
  2. chevisance: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chevisance: Wordnik
  4. chevisance: Wiktionary
  5. Chevisance: Dictionary.com
  6. Chevisance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. chevisance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Chevisance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. chevisance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. chevisance: FreeDictionary.org
  11. chevisance: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Chevisance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Chevisance: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (chevisance)

noun:  (obsolete) Provision(s), supply.
noun:  (obsolete) Booty.
noun:  (obsolete) Remedy, resource, expedient, means of helping oneself.
noun:  (obsolete, chiefly derogatory) The raising of money (by a borrower, by some expedient).
noun:  (obsolete, often derogatory) The furnishing of money (by a lender) for profit.
noun:  (obsolete) A contract or agreement (about a matter in dispute, such as a debt); in particular, an unlawful contract intended to evade laws against usury.
noun:  (obsolete) Chivalrous adventure.

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