machinery
Americannoun
plural
machineries-
an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses.
the machinery of a factory.
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the parts of a machine, collectively.
the machinery of a watch.
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a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained.
the machinery of government.
- Synonyms:
- setup, structure, organization
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a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
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the group or aggregate of literary machines, especially those of supernatural agency epic machinery in an epic poem.
noun
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machines, machine parts, or machine systems collectively
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a particular machine system or set of machines
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a system similar to a machine
the machinery of government
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literary devices used for effect in epic poetry
Other Word Forms
- antimachinery adjective
Etymology
Origin of machinery
Example Sentences
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“We could not buy spare parts for machinery, for example. They all had to be paid for in hard currency that we mostly couldn’t access,” he said.
From MarketWatch
And even though it has that machinery behind it, there is still something that feels very organic about the success of this movie.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Rodríguez, according to sources, siphoned profits through networks of international and domestic businessmen while building PR machinery to sanitize her image.
Rather than spreading only through passive release into surrounding tissue, viruses can exploit the body's own migratory machinery to move efficiently and systemically.
From Science Daily
“Trough conditions continue: depressed business activity, some seasonal but largely impacted by customer issues due to interest rates, tariffs, low oil commodity pricing and limited housing starts,” said a respondent in the machinery sector.
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