Synonyms for machinery
məˈʃi nə rima·chin·e·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. machinerynoun

   machines or machine systems collectively

2. machinerynoun

   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"

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1. machinerynoun

   Synonyms:
   enginery, mechanism

2. machinerynoun

   Synonyms:
   supernatural agency (in poems)

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1. List of paraphrases for "machinery":

   machines, mechanism, machine, mechanisms, mechanical, machine-building, equipment, apparatus, device, mechanically, engine

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1. Hedy Bohm:

   Those who commit crimes today must know they will be held responsible in the future, and never again will they be able to just plead 'I'm a cog in the machinery, I didn't kill'.

2. John Maynard Keynes:

   Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

3. Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901):

   The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.

4. Thames Water:

   This fatberg is up there with the biggest we’ve ever seen, it’s a total monster and taking a lot of manpower and machinery to remove as it’s set hard.

5. Dean Boxall:

   Diamonds are made from pressure and Ariarne Titmus is certainly a diamond — Ariarne Titmus lives for the pressure moments, but you also need to build the machinery around Ariarne Titmus to get ready to handle that pressure... This will be the longest break Ariarne Titmus has ever had in Ariarne Titmus short career.