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English noun: devices

1. devices (cognition) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'


SamplesEventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force.
The children were left to their own devices.


Broader (hypernym)disposition, inclination, tendency









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