machine rifle

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   light machine gun

   Synonymsautomatic rifleautomatic

   Broaderautomatic firearmmachine gun

   Narrowerassault rifleBrowning automatic rifle

Questions about machine rifle

What does machine rifle mean?

machine rifle means "light machine gun".

What is another word for machine rifle?

Close synonyms include automatic rifle, automatic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is machine rifle a common word?

machine rifle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.