machinerynoun [ U ]
uk/məˈʃiː.nər.i/us/məˈʃiː.nɚ.i/machinery noun [ U ] (MACHINES)
C1 a group of large machines or the parts of a machine that make it work:
industrial/farm machinery
His hand was injured when he got it caught in the machinery.
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- The tunnel was dug with the aid of heavy machinery.
- The machinery company was a front operation for arms smuggling.
- The noise of the machinery made her voice inaudible.
- Nuts and bolts are used to hold pieces of machinery together.
- Do you know how to run this sort of machinery?
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Machines - general words
- 3-D printer
- automatic
- backhoe
- bot
- cash machine
- cement mixer
- cloud chamber
- compactor
- contraption
- cotton gin
- crank
- derrick
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- plant
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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machinery noun [ U ] (PROCESS/ORGANIZATION)
the structure and systems of an organization or process:
bureaucratic/political/decision-making machinery
the machinery of government
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Ways of achieving things
- a means to an end idiom
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- mixed media
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- resort
- vein
- what's the drill for sth? idiom
- whereby
- workings
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