0 complicated and secret plans to get power or control or to gain an advantage:
Despite a commitment to a more open government, the public is still being kept in the dark about the inner machinations of the Cabinet.
1 complicated and secret plans, esp. in obtaining or using power:
She complained about the machinations political candidates employed to win.
History is still ultimately a question of class struggle, and the developments of the nineteenth century are dominated by the machinations of bourgeois capital.
How can a genuinely popular music stave off the machinations of the culture industry?
No amount of harmonic or contrapuntal machinations succeed in aligning theme with key.
Furthermore, the deliberations themselves give cause to revise the laudatory view, more or less explicit in social learning theory, of policy experts' machinations.
Censorship, of course, played a part, as did government machinations and contrived impediments to travel.
This study impressively documents the machinations of foreign entrepreneurs and the complicity of the domestic elite that led to that surrendering of control.
The first is the presence of intellectual machinations as components of the policy process.
Several fellow renovationists developed their distaste for the ecclesiastical bureaucracy by witnessing its machinations from within.
