Machinery
Machinery noun - A system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions.
Usage example: the complex machinery of negotiation
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Synonyms for Machinery
System is a synonym for machinery in administration topic. In some cases you can use "System" instead a noun "Machinery", when it comes to topics like scheme, workings, devices performing work.
Nearby Words: machine, machining
System
System noun - Something made up of many interdependent or related parts.
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Synonyms for System
Nearby Words: systematic, systemic
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- technique and machinery
- technique and system
- device and machinery
- device and system
- apparatus and machinery
- apparatus and system
- mode and machinery
- mode and system
- administration and machinery
- administration and system
- organization and machinery
- organization and system
- structure and machinery
- structure and system
How words are described
| human | human machinery | human system |
| old | old machinery | old system |
| special | special machinery | special system |
| elaborate | elaborate machinery | elaborate system |
| Other adjectives: better, complex, alien, active, massive, complicated, inner, internal, sophisticated, new, advanced, political, broken, military, underground, basic, modern, automated, magical, electrical. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Prudith accidentally takes her place, and has her body entirely destroyed, save for her brain, eyes, and nervous system, and has it replaced with new body parts and machinery.
Source: Unwilling Roboticisation - This is assuming that the one-person-industrial-revolution knows how all of this stuff is supposed to work - the machinery, the institutions, and the economic system - in the first place, anyhow.
Source: One-Man Industrial Revolution - So the reactor system, including cooling pumps and other machinery, runs all the time.
Cite this Source
System and Machinery. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/machinery/system
Machinery & System. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/machinery/system>.
System or Machinery. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/machinery/system.
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