1. Machines or machine systems collectively 
2. A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
   "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command laboured and brought forth an order"

Derived forms: machineries

See also: machine, mechanically skillful [N. Amer]

Type of: machine, scheme, system

Encyclopedia: Machinery

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