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What does machinery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word machinery? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
  2. The working parts of a machine as a group.
  3. The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
  4. (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect
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Sheep, dogs and vintage farm machinery will be displayed by their owners vying for the top prizes and the many cups and trophies on offer.
In Hard Times he seems not to be directing his attack against machinery but against what Carlyle would have seen as a machine-like mentality.
In college baseball, tennis, track, golf, swimming and other campus sports, the machinery is smooth.
What they want is the lubrication of taxpayer money to move swiftly into the machinery of the credit markets.
Most of them are happy to use the bureaucratic machinery to escape from taking the rap.
Specialized neural machinery takes care of the heavy lifting while our conscious minds sit lazily at the controls.

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