engrenagen.
/ɒŋɡrəˈnɑːʒ/ figurative. Gearing, putting into gear, meshing.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready
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engrenage1918
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > interlocking of cogs or gears
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engrenage1918
1918 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1930) 237 The prison machine would not release the two men caught in its engrenage.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 675/2 The new political romanticism of Communism believes that the reality can be dissipated by a new ordering of society; but probably it will succeed only in loosening one engrenage by imposing another.
1963 Economist 19 Jan. 203/1 ‘Good Europeans’..sought consolation in the..theory of engrenage (getting into gear).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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