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The collective noun for things that turn effort into results while you supervise.
means The machines and mechanical parts of a system considered as a whole, or — more loosely — the organized structure and processes behind how something operates.
from From 'machine,' which came through French 'machine' from Latin 'machina' (a device, contrivance, or engine), itself from Greek 'mēkhanē' (a means, contrivance, or theatrical crane — the same root that gives us 'mechanical'). The '-ery' suffix, as in 'bakery' or 'machinery,' bundles individual things into a collective trade or mass — so 'machinery' is literally 'the machine-stuff,' all the gears treated as one.
- theater roots
- first described stage trapdoors and pulley tricks, not factories
- bureaucratic cousin
- government machinery is the same word, slower gears
- never singular parts
- always collective, you cannot own one machinery