Princeton's WordNet

1. machinery(noun)

   machines or machine systems collectively

2. machinery(noun)

   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"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. machinery(noun)əˈʃi nə ri

   all the machines of a particular type

   industrial/office machinery

2. machineryəˈʃi nə ri

   the parts that make up a machine

   the clock's machinery

3. machineryəˈʃi nə ri

   the way a group or system is organized

   the machinery of the political party

Wiktionary

1. machinery(Noun)

   The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

2. machinery(Noun)

   The working parts of a machine as a group.

3. machinery(Noun)

   The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

4. machinery(Noun)

   The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

Origin: From machinerie, from machine; see machine.

Webster Dictionary

1. Machinery(noun)

   machines, in general, or collectively

2. Machinery(noun)

   the working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch

3. Machinery(noun)

   the supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected

4. Machinery(noun)

   the means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose

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