machineryUK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/məˈʃiːnəri/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/məˈʃinəri/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(mə shē′nə rē)
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machinery
You can refer to machines in general as machinery. The company makes tractors and other farm machinery. If you are taking this medication, you should not drive a car or operate machinery. Machinery is an uncountable noun. Don't say ‘machineries’ or ‘a machinery’. You can talk about a piece of machinery. He was called out to fix a piece of machinery that had broken down. 'machinery' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Forum discussions with the word(s) "machinery" in the title: ...do not operate any machine/machinery. - English Only forum
a clock with all its machinery hanging out - English Only forum betrayed her against the hum of the machinery - English Only forum dissected machinery - English Only forum extravagant foliage ...by machinery - English Only forum finding more bodies as heavy machinery began - meaning? - English Only forum for machinery is just scrap - English Only forum for the new machinery - English Only forum heavy machinery - English Only forum heavy machinery - English Only forum Its plants manned by automated state-of-the-art machinery - English Only forum labour-saving machinery - English Only forum "machinery" - English Only forum machinery - English Only forum machinery began turning automatically - English Only forum Machinery <life/lives> - English Only forum machinery made from the parts of the same set - English Only forum machinery may have to have been more elaborated through evolution - English Only forum Machinery or equipment? - English Only forum machinery vs. mechanism - English Only forum machines and machinery - English Only forum machines or machinery - English Only forum of seeing machinery come to life - English Only forum Our state-of-the-art machinery is our major....... . - English Only forum Passive for "The company will invest in machinery" - English Only forum plant and machinery - English Only forum Products come out of machinery with rough surface - English Only forum Syllables In "Machinery" - English Only forum the machinery of celebrity - English Only forum The Under–world being in contact with machinery, had probably retained.... - English Only forum more...
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