Collocations withmachinery
These are words often used in combination withmachinery.
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administrative machinery
The yearly subsidies from the central treasury (excluding loan and assistance) keep afloat the administrative machinery of the regional governments.
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agricultural machinery
This created better opportunities for the intensification of production by the use of scientific methods and agricultural machinery.
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automated machinery
The underlying assumption of many manufacturers was that automated machinery was generally more trustworthy than the skilled artisan.
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bureaucratic machinery
It was also able to create bureaucratic machinery, whose members' fortunes became dependent on the development industry.
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complex machinery
For a complex machinery system or process, a multilayer diagnostic system may be employed.
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complicated machinery
Greenhouse heating oil has gone up in price and the complicated machinery used in horticulture is getting even more costly.
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electric machinery
Industrial music was created originally by using mechanical and electric machinery, and later advanced to synthesisers, samplers and electronic percussion as the technology developed.
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existing machinery
The existing machinery for doing this is adequate, but we are always seeking opportunities to introduce improvements.
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expensive machinery
With respect to inputs, the landlords usually provided the land, the livestock and increasingly a large share of the most expensive machinery.
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farm machinery
Throughout the industrial revolution, innovations in farm machinery have dramatically decreased labor demands and improved the efficiency and effectiveness of field operations.
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industrial machinery
In the fourteenth century water is used as the driving force for industrial machinery.
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molecular machinery
It might, however, include a part of the molecular machinery of the spindle-asssembly checkpoint.
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piece of machinery
Whereas an engineer would be sure to specify the steps of construction of an optimal piece of machinery to achieve a particular end, natural selection adds features in unplanned steps.
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precision machinery
It does not matter whether it is heavy machinery or very delicate precision machinery.
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sophisticated machinery
But again, such systems provide much more complicated assertions than ours, and need sophisticated machinery to reason with them.
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textile machinery
My father was a small-town banker, in a one-industry town: textiles and textile machinery.
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used machinery
These included heavy export duties on used machinery and plant, capital export restrictions, and obstructing the emigration of key workers.
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vast machinery
We all realise the vast machinery which it seeks to control.
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