The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
contrivements
plural of contrivement
Source: Wiktionary
Con*trive"ment, n.
Definition: Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 October 2024
(adjective) subject to accident or chance or change; “a chancy appeal at best”; “getting that job was definitely fluky”; “a fluky wind”; “an iffy proposition”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.