contrivance, measure (action to achieve some purpose) · fig leaf (anything intended to conceal something undesirable)
çekim: çoğul seifteanna · tamlayan seifte
köken: From English shift in its archaic sense “contrivance, device to try when other methods fail”, from Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, appoint, arrange”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną.