Synonyms for machinery
məˈʃi nə rima·chin·e·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. machinerynoun

   machines or machine systems collectively

2. machinerynoun

   a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions

   "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"

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1. machinerynoun

   Synonyms:
   enginery, mechanism

2. machinerynoun

   Synonyms:
   supernatural agency (in poems)

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1. List of paraphrases for "machinery":

   machines, mechanism, machine, mechanisms, mechanical, machine-building, equipment, apparatus, device, mechanically, engine

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1. Andy Warhol:

   I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

2. Stephen Miller:

   Equity is the sanitized term of choicedeployed by the hard-Left to encompass the entirepanoplyof government policies that institutionalize Critical Race Theory into the machinery of government, equity is CRT put into practice: It demolishes and replaces equality as the foundational principle of American life and wields fearsome federal government power to exclude, punish,prejudge, evaluate, stereotype,segregate, and obsessively categorize American citizens on the basis of skin color.

3. H. G. Wells:

   There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

4. Shi Yang:

   It will be another tough year for construction machinery makers as the growth of the country's fixed asset investment continues to slow.

5. Don Shomette:

   Within a year we had a million men building ships, cutting the timber, mining the iron for them, building the machinery for them. At one point we became the greatest shipbuilding nation in the history of the world, we had to create from nothing a shipping industry that was going to build a thousand wooden ships in 18 months -- normally it would take a year and a half to build a wooden steam ship.