machinery
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- noun
- /məˈʃinəri/
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mecanismo
- China is but one cog, and revaluation just one lever in the complex machinery of international trade.
- administrative machinery
- governmental machinery
- government machinery
So what is the machinery of the art world?
- So what is the machinery of the art world?
- What's the what is the the machinery that allows that to happen?
- The Republicans who are a, part of the, the machinery of the elites right now.
- Has special computational neurological machinery to handle trauma.
- So you've got a lot of machinery that makes sure that you don't starve to death.
- Now, programmers generally don't want to deal with all the typing machinery and like pushing around a variant.
- When we are all plugged into machinery that makes us angrier and angrier and angrier.
- So from the moment you're born, you are immersed in this machinery, right?
- There's a power to the finiteness of the human life that's part of this whole machinery of evolution.
- So all this like crazy stuff becomes the the gunk in the Gears of the machinery that is society.
- Stuttering is a is essentially a breakdown at certain times in that machinery being able to work in a really coordinated way.
- No, because we are programmed for survival and regret is part of our cognitive machinery.
- But for the most part, RNA is like a message from DNA that has been translated in a language that the cellular machinery can read to produce a protein.
- That, that wing gang story that you tell about Avenatti and in Iowa, I think is pretty illustrative of how the machinery operates.
Examples
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Political democracy provides the machinery, the form of this intercourse; it makes it possible.
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So what is the machinery of the art world?
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OK, But now the point is we have the machinery in place.
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The legal machinery in capital cases... usually runs a year or more.
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So when it comes to the machinery of stress, can you explain?
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For the first time in history, people and machinery are working together, realizing a dream.
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The Catholic Church certainly has the machinery to pursue reception on a worldwide and local scene.
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Emotions are curious adaptations that are part and parcel of the machinery with which organisms regulate survival.
Academic text (2017) -
Most of the irrigation technology and machinery employed by Frunorte and Agroknoll have been imported from Israel.
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In order to understand economic policy, it is essential to grasp the machinery of government.
Synonyms
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An organized way of doing things to avoid confusion
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An organized system that works well to reach its goals
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3.4
The people, groups, and laws that govern a country
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The parts inside a machine or system that make it run
Compounds
The part of the British government that plans, organizes, and pays for intelligence and security agencies
- Specialized
Machines that grind or crush materials like grain into smaller pieces
How Organized
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Machinery can also mean the systems that make something work, and this use comes from machine and the old Greek mekhanē meaning 'device'. Think of an organization as a big machine where people and rules are the parts, so machinery means the processes and systems that keep it running.