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• n  a person who makes plans

• The celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is yawned offstage as Osberg, a contriver of "mystico-allegoric anecdotes.
• George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.
• He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial.

• planner
• deviser