Other forms: machineries
Machinery is machines taken together, or the workings of a system. Heavy machinery, farm machinery, the machinery of government.
It is uncountable, so there are pieces of machinery rather than machineries. The machinery of government is the standard phrase for the departments and procedures through which decisions actually happen.
1nounmachineryMachines taken together, or the workings of a system.
“The farm sold its old machinery, including two tractors and a harvester.”
machinery is an equipment.
From machine plus -ery, the ending naming a collection or a trade.
Middle French
machine
English
machine
English, today
machinery
From machine + -ery. Compare French machinerie. machine Borrowed from Middle French machine. Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from grc-dor μᾱχᾰνᾱ́, cognate with grc-att μηχᾰνή (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.
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