expensive machinery

collocation in English

meaningsofexpensiveandmachinery

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expensive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/us
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv/
costing a lot ...
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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 ofexpensiveandmachineryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With respect to inputs, the landlords usually provided the land, the livestock and increasingly a large share of the mostexpensivemachinery.
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Many loan associations themselves began to offer services, such as cooperative rental schemes for heavy andexpensivemachinery, in addition to the provision of cheaper credit.
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If this were to replicate the immigration appeals procedure, it would necessitate unwieldy andexpensivemachinery.
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We are installingexpensivemachineryfor cleaning the coal.
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It is not much good equipping a plant or factory withexpensivemachineryif its production is lost through an accident to the operator.
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What shall we gain by setting up this very,expensivemachinery—because it will be expensive and elaborate?
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The modern car is a piece of delicate andexpensivemachinery.
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These farms are to be established on model lines and new andexpensivemachineryon a scale hitherto unknown in this country will be used.
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When thisexpensivemachineryis installed, they realise that it must be worked this length of time in order to get the return on it.
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That cumbrous andexpensivemachineryis the only way of appealing.
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If it can be afforded, the introduction of moreexpensivemachinerycan often make a marginal mine more productive.
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All that involves mostexpensivemachinery, and it also postulates an enormous body of officials.
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Expensivemachineryhas been installed, and the coal has been cleaned, and washed, and dressed and brushed up.
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It is not primarily in fixed assets,expensivemachineryor buildings.
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Last year it was said that a lot of money was being put into a sinking fund, particularly for the purchase ofexpensivemachinery.
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There is no encouragement to management to invest in new, highlyexpensivemachinerywhich needs to be run round the clock without interruption.
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You then erect veryexpensivemachinery, fuse them together at a terrific heat, and then you grind the result to powder.
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To prevent payment being made to this country would involve setting up elaborate andexpensivemachineryand imposing an intolerable burden upon trade.
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In my view, there can be no justification for mostexpensivemachinerybeing under-used.
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If we sell to people overseasexpensivemachineryto make products we then refuse to buy from them, what service have we done them?
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