1. Machines or machine systems collectively 
2. A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
   "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command laboured and brought forth an order"

Derived forms: machineries

See also: machine, mechanically skillful [N. Amer]

Type of: machine, scheme, system

Encyclopedia: Machinery

• customs duty
• Customs Service
• customs union
• customshouse
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• cut across
• cut and run
• cut corners
• cut down
• cut glass
• cut into
• cut it out
• cut lunch
• cut no ice
• cut of beef
• cut of lamb
• cut of meat
• cut of mutton
• cut of pork
• cut of veal
• cut short
• cut the mustard
• cut through
• cut to
• cut to ribbons