0 past simple and past participle of lubricate --
1 to use a substance such as oil to make a machine operate more easily, or to prevent something sticking or rubbing: --
It did not create new work, but it lubricated the industrial machine, and it is important that that machine should be properly lubricated.
It would seem to me that it is an engine of free enterprise liberally lubricated by public money.
It has to be very carefully attended to and very carefully lubricated otherwise it will give a great deal of trouble.
As has been said, the resources that have been made available have lubricated the necessary changes.
There may well be a little rigidity in the regional machinery and, if so, we want to see that it is properly oiled, properly lubricated.
Has he given thought to how that friction might be better lubricated?
The other kind is not and has to be lubricated by the user.
Their propaganda machine has never been so lubricated and so professional world-wide.
