0 a group of large machines or the parts of a machine that make it work -- （大型的）機器；機械；（機器的）運轉部分
industrial/farm machinery 工業／農業機械
His hand was injured when he got it caught in the machinery. 他的手捲到機器裡受傷了。
1 the structure and systems of an organization or process -- 機構，體系，系統
bureaucratic/political/decision-making machinery 官僚／政治／決策體系
the machinery of government 政府機制
The machinery company was a front operation for arms smuggling.
Nuts and bolts are used to hold pieces of machinery together.
Prolonged industrial conflicts often produced widespread confrontations between law enforcement machineries of the colonial state and poorer urban dwellers.
I was, in fact, in part producing permanent capital in the form of transfer machineries.
In most negotiating machineries there is a fairly clear division, with employers on one side and employees on the other.
