machine-minding
noun
The action of supervising or tending a machine in operation, especially by performing routine checks and maintenance or ensuring the continuous supply of materials, as on a manufacturing production line; frequently with pejorative connotations of undemanding and tedious work.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), artist and writer.
- monumentalise
- monumentalism
- monumentality
- monumentalization
- monumentalize
- monumentally
- monumental mason
- monumental masonry
- monumental sculptor
- monumental sculpture
- monumentary
- put someone on notice (or serve notice)
- put someone on their mettle
- put someone on the spot
- put someone on to
- put someone (or something) through their (or its) paces
- put someone out
- put someone out to pasture
- put someone's eyes out
- put someone's nose out of joint
- put someone's (or have one's) ass in a sling
- put someone/thing on the map
- put someone/thing out of one's mind
- put someone/thing out of their misery
- put someone/thing to flight