Usually means: Cunning schemes to achieve goals.
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  1. machinations: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. machinations: Merriam-Webster
  3. machinations: Collins English Dictionary
  4. machinations: Vocabulary.com
  5. Machinations, machinations: Wordnik
  6. machinations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. machinations: Wiktionary
  8. machinations: Dictionary.com
  9. machinations: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Machinations (band), Machinations: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. machinations: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  an Australian synthpop band which formed in 1980.


Opposite:
simplicity

Types:
schemes, plans, conspiracies, stratagems, wiles, more...

Phrases:
political machinations, opposite of machinations, more...

Adjectives:
political, secret, evil, such, own, sinister, wicked, british, various, diabolical, financial

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Opposite:
simplicity

Types:
schemes, plans, conspiracies, stratagems, wiles, more...

Phrases:
political machinations, opposite of machinations, more...

Adjectives:
political, secret, evil, such, own, sinister, wicked, british, various, diabolical, financial

Colors:
    charcoal,     obsidian,     midnight blue,     gunmetal,     slate gray, more...




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