The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
The working parts of a machine as a group.
The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.
From machine + -ery. Compare French machinerie.
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