machinery

Definition:
1. Machines or machine systems collectively.
2. A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions.

Use 'machinery' in a sentence:

• 1. Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
• 2. New power machinery and artificial fertilizers have now totally transformed a way of life that started in the Stone Age.
• 3. The old machinery was still going strong.
• 4. The factory contains much machinery.
• 5. The new age of machinery, in short, could not have been born without a new source of both movable and constant power.
• 6. He knows he has considerable support for his plans to tighten his grip on the machinery of central government.
• 7. The factory's machinery pounded away day and night.
• 8. Oil is put in machinery to reduce the friction.
• 9. There are new tractors and new ploughs in the machinery lot.
• 10. Agricultural machinery is widely used in various agricultural sectors.
• 11. Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.
• 12. The next wave of autonomous farm machinery is already at work.
• 13. Later the government guaranteed loans to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery, hybrid grain, and fertilizers.
• 14. The country makes and exports a lot of machinery.
• 15. Named after Ned Lud, one of the workers who destroyed machinery in factories in the early 19th century, because they believed it would take away their jobs.
• 16. If the machinery were not maintained properly, It would get rusty as time passes.
• 17. There was a whirring of machinery.
• 18. We've always specialised in making very robust, simply designed machinery.
• 19. The machinery is driven by electricity.
• 20. Office machinery is kept to a minimum.
• 21. Farmers import most of their machinery and materials.
• 22. Machinery was often unprotected and accidents were frequent.
• 23. It is widely used in hydraulic excavators, vibratory road rollers and other construction machinery.
• 24. The machinery of democracy could be created quickly.
• 25. China will host an exhibition of international garment machinery.
• 26. In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on.
• 27. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems.
• 28. Every few minutes the motor cut out as the machinery became jammed.
• 29. On the customs declaration, the sender labeled the freight as agricultural machinery.
• 30. On the customs declaration, the sender labelled the freight as agricultural machinery.
• 31. What skills are needed to operate this machinery?
• 32. There is no machinery for resolving disputes.
• 33. A lawyer is part of the machinery of justice.
• 34. The most important trees were tagged to protect them from being damaged by construction machinery.
• 35. Any fool could auction off a factory full of engineering machinery.
• 36. The full state and police machinery ground into action.
• 37. Mineral oils are used to lubricate machinery.
• 38. One needs to be a first-class driver to get the best out of that sort of machinery.
• 39. They set the machinery in motion.
• 40. He had interfaced all this machinery with a master computer.
• 41. Reduced operation of the machinery should limit their production and thereby constrain the damage.
• 42. The contract clearly specifies who can operate the machinery.
• 43. Their ears were still attuned to the sounds of the farm machinery.
• 44. The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.
• 45. They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods.
• 46. An elevator mechanic can work the machinery directly by turning this lever.
• 47. The church was crowded, so electrical machinery was used to relay the service out to the people.