Usually means: Equipment designed for specific tasks.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word machinery:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. machinery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. machinery: Merriam-Webster
  3. machinery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. machinery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. machinery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. machinery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Machinery, machinery: Wordnik
  8. machinery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. machinery: Wiktionary
  10. machinery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. machinery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. machinery: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Machinery, machinery: Dictionary.com
  14. machinery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Machinery (disambiguation), Machinery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Machinery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. machinery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. machinery: Rhymezone
  19. machinery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. machinery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. machinery: FreeDictionary.org
  22. machinery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. machinery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. machinery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. machinery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. machinery: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. machinery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Machinery: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See machineries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
noun:  The working parts of a machine as a group.
noun:  The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
noun:  (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.

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