machinery - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'machinery' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Machinery

[ n.]

- Machines, in general, or collectively.
- The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
- The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
- The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

Meaning of 'machinery' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . machinery

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions

Example in sentence:

the complex machinery of negotiation;
the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order

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