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. Julie Burchill:

   Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

3. Paul Valery:

   Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

4. Chris Baumann:

   I’ve done a bunch of different jobs, but the one where I did n’t need to work out was working at a woodmill in Steamboat Springs( Colorado), you get real big logs where you need machinery to move them, but some of the smaller ones you can move yourself.

5. 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.