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say it: muh-SHEE-nur-ee
machinery is a noun meaning "machines or machine systems collectively". It is pronounced /məˈʃinɚi/ — muh-SHEE-nur-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
machines or machine systems collectively
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for machinery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.