Definition of “concoction”

Usage examples

• It wasn't tea at all, but some exotic herbal concoction.

  Tapply, William G, The Dutch Blue Error (1985)

• There are many things that go into the concoction of strategy: ideas, time, accidents, chance discoveries, even serendipity.

  Business Today (1999)

• He confessed all this, they explain, after they fed him some of the same concoction he'd been selling.

  Globe and Mail (2003)

• Sir, The concoction of Giles Binney (letter, February 4) was clearly the weak version.

  Times, Sunday Times (2002)

• The cake turned out to be a golden concoction of pured potatoes; morsels of crispy duck were hidden beneath.

  Pamela Petro, THE SLOW BREATH OF STONE: A Romanesque Love Story (2005)