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Noun: machinery  mu'shee-nu-ree
  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

Type of: machine, scheme, system

Encyclopedia: Machinery