Usually means: Creating a plan or strategy.
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  1. devising: Merriam-Webster
  2. devising: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. Devising, devising: Wordnik
  5. devising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. devising: Wiktionary
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  8. devising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Devising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  11. Devising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. devising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. devising: FreeDictionary.org
  14. devising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. devising: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. devising: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. devising: Legal dictionary
  3. devising: Financial dictionary

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  1. devising: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will

Similar:
making, fashioning, devisement, devisal, planning, designment, willmaking, designing, definitioneering, counsel, more...

Opposite:
undoing, dismantling, destroying, disassembling

Types:
designing, planning, mapping, charting, schematizing, outlining, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, busy, ingenious, distinct, careful, evil, mine, conscious, inventive, deliberate



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Similar:
making, fashioning, devisement, devisal, planning, designment, willmaking, designing, definitioneering, counsel, more...

Opposite:
undoing, dismantling, destroying, disassembling

Types:
designing, planning, mapping, charting, schematizing, outlining, more...

Adjectives:
own, human, busy, ingenious, distinct, careful, evil, mine, conscious, inventive, deliberate



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