vast machinery
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandmachinery
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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machinery
noun[U]
uk/məˈʃiː.nər.i/us/məˈʃiː.nɚ.i/
a group of large machines or the parts of a machine that make ...
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(Definition ofvastandmachineryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We all realise thevastmachinerywhich it seeks to control.
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You are going to set upvastmachineryas compared with the simplicity of the present methods.
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That is different from setting up avastmachinerywhereby a whole lot of people meet in a room somewhere remote from the consumers.
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Yet thisvastmachineryis to be set up to prevent the recurrence of those cases.
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They have erected avastmachineryof small bureaucrats whose permission has to be obtained at every turn.
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We have avastmachineryto consider matters of privilege.
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The whole of thisvastmachinerywhich has been constructed ought to exist primarily in the interests of the unemployed.
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All these have got to be inspected, and unless your committee is purely nugatory it must employ thisvastmachinery.
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Vastmachinerywill have to be put into place for a measly £1,000.
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This is in an industry withvastmachineryand vast plants which must have stability to enable it to plan ahead effectively.
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It will require the samevastmachineryof bull-dozers and other equipment to tear up these concrete runways, as it took to build them.
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The setting up ofvastmachineryfor consultation can be somewhat dangerous.
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We were asked how we would police these provisions and a large army of snoopers was referred to as part of thevastmachineryfor preventing loss of revenue.
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So the average of those years might be more favourable than it ought to be, because they have been purposely used for building up thisvastmachineryof war.
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His exhibitions of individual works were accompanied by promotion, ticket sales, and, in the words of one critic, avastmachineryof advertisement and puffery.
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