machineries
- 1Plural of machinery. Rare; used mainly of separate systems, as in the machineries of government.
The report compared the industrial machineries of several competing nations.
The essay traces the bureaucratic machineries that kept the old empire running.
Note
A plural for a word that usually refuses one. Machinery mostly works as a mass noun (the machinery of a factory, rarely its machineries), so the plural earns its place when distinct systems are set side by side, as in the legal machineries of different states. It carries every sense of the singular, including the figurative one for a writer's literary devices: the plot machineries of two rival novels.
machineries is a form of machinery
machinery, noun: The machines that together make up the production equipment of a factory or plant. Full entry
- Forms
- machinerymachineries plural
- Spelling
- machinery → machineries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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