- [uncountable] machines as a group, especially large ones
- agricultural/industrial machinery
- a piece of machinery
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1, Engineeringc1- machinery for grinding wheat
- These workshops were built to house heavy machinery.
- This car is a pretty sophisticated piece of machinery.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- complex
- complicated
- …
- piece
- maintain
- repair
- manufacture
- …
- machinery for
- the hum of machinery
- [uncountable] the parts of a machine that make it work
- a clock with all its machinery hanging out
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- complex
- complicated
- …
- piece
- maintain
- repair
- manufacture
- …
- machinery for
- the hum of machinery
- [uncountable, singular] the organization or structure of something; the system for doing something
- the machinery of government
- They are faced with the task of dismantling the state machinery in order to create more democratic structures.
- machinery for doing something There is no machinery for resolving disputes.
- The bumblebee has developed complex machinery for collecting pollen.
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