noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
farm machinery
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In the field, there was a tractor and some other farm machinery.
heavy machinery
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a company which manufactures heavy machinery
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery .
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He had the farm now, which had its uses, as well as the agricultural machinery business.
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Look across the field and you can appreciate why space for storing vintage agricultural machinery on the farm has finally run out.
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The social historian may he interested in changing modes of dress, or agricultural and industrial machinery .
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There were more than 100 trade stands, including vast displays of sophisticated hi-tech agricultural machinery .
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In addition, a consultation fee of £4,000 was agreed between the agricultural machinery supplier for introducing the client and closing the sale.
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Built it up, made a go of it. Agricultural machinery , can you beat that?
complex
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This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery .
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The bumble bee has developed complex machinery for collecting pollen.
heavy
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Komatsu, which makes heavy machinery , is integrating its research system with that of its suppliers.
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Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery .
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The stolid chugging, the intense revving of big diesels, the bass throb: it all signalled heavy machinery at work.
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There was quite an array of heavy machinery in sight, but none close enough to be a plausible source of accident.
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Patterns made in fields by the tracks of heavy machinery also frequently resemble patterns associated with archaeological remains.
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Case Corp. led the advance amid optimism the heavy-machinery manufacturer will post robust profits for the fourth quarter.
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This, and the sound of heavy machinery passing underneath the window, kept me tossing and turning.
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The steady hum of the drilling rigs and the rough growls of heavy machinery moving on the road smear the coastal quiet.
industrial
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All four admitted a second charge of conspiracy to handle stolen motor vehicles, industrial plant and machinery .
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The social historian may he interested in changing modes of dress, or agricultural and industrial machinery .
legal
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Care, however, must be taken here: dispute settlement does not necessarily involve legal machinery .
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Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently attacked the legal machinery of capital punishment.
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Part Five explains the legal machinery for protecting children looked after outside the family but not by local authorities.
modern
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He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
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Machinery contracting not only helped the farm's cash-flow but also, once established, gave the farm access to modern machinery .
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All reaping must be done by hand using sickle and scythe due to the difficulty in using modern machinery .
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In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery .
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The second phase of installation of modern machinery was due to start this month.
new
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We must always be on the lookout for 38A NEW methods and machinery which will help reduce costs.
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The building will house new replacement machinery for the flocking equipment destroyed in the Dec. 11 blaze.
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This, not the introduction of new machinery , was the grievance of the framework knitters.
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Breweries, bakeries and many other businesses will be forced to invest in new , cleaner machinery .
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A heavy investment in new machinery was needed before Ashley Mountney could offer wool garments.
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The arrangements for development control schemes have been superseded by new consultation machinery .
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Moreover, management did not take the opportunities presented by the new machinery to tighten control over production.
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The new central machinery will not make it easy.
old
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This was due to poor buildings, old machinery and accumulation of mental and physical fatigue because of the unrelenting nature of the activity.
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The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
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You can cut down on cost per unit by continuing with the old machinery .
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This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.
■ NOUN
factory
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The defendants were subject to a fine of £100 for breach of statutory duty in failing to fence factory machinery .
farm
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He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
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Until the combine appeared, the self-binder had been the mechanical marvel of the farm machinery industry for forty years.
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A fire service spokeswoman said the outhouses contained mostly farm machinery .
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They were brothers; they were transporting farm machinery from Los Angeles to Minnesota and making good money at it.
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These included providing extra farm machinery and manpower, including 20,000 troops.
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They were one of the first, and certainly one of the most successful, manufacturers of steam-powered farm machinery .
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The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
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Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery .
state
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In pre-modern Berlin the claims on land of this expanding state machinery had already driven land values famously high.
■ VERB
buy
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He has a co-operative bank manager and managed to buy second hand machinery .
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They bought machinery to improve output.
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The company has bought the necessary continuous-welding machinery and is training operators.
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New loans went to pay off the interest on earlier loans rather than on buying new farm machinery or modernising farming methods.
drive
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Three waterwheels drove the machinery here.
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Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery .
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Indeed, such medication usually carries a warning stating that the individual should not drive or operate machinery after taking it.
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Waterpower could be used to drive machinery , but few contemplated converting it into electricity.
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The other still has insitu the wooden undershot waterwheel installed to drive its grinding machinery .
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Evershed planned twelve lateral canals to supply water to 238 individual wheel pits, each driving its own machinery .
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For centuries, traditional windmills harnessed the wind to drive machinery for grinding wheat into flour.
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If affected do not drive or operate machinery .
operate
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Indeed, such medication usually carries a warning stating that the individual should not drive or operate machinery after taking it.
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Afterward, you can still drive and operate heavy machinery .
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If affected do not drive or operate machinery .
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If accumulation is rapid then large numbers of workers must regularly be available to operate newly installed machinery .
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People holding loud parties or operating noisy machinery will be closely scrutinised by the council's environmental health officers.
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With little additional labour available, employers compete fiercely for labour to operate newly installed machinery .
provide
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Then industry and farming can be benefitted by providing grants and machinery etc.
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The Pact did not provide any machinery for enforcement: it merely pledged the nations to outlaw war.
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The Rules of Court provide machinery for the quantification.
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Although the visitor's position is anomalous, it provides a valuable machinery for resolving internal disputes which should not be lost.
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In some cases, notably personal injuries cases, rules of court have provided special machinery to assist a plaintiff.
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Money was needed to build the factories and provide the machinery to exploit these resources to the fullest extent.
set
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They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it.
use
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They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.
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The system's friendly to the environment because it doesn't use any machinery .
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Waterpower could be used to drive machinery , but few contemplated converting it into electricity.
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Both industries use heavy and complicated machinery .
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In such circumstances, they manage to carry on by using backup metabolic machinery designed to burn glucose without oxygen.
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All reaping must be done by hand using sickle and scythe due to the difficulty in using modern machinery .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a company that manufactures farm machinery
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farm machinery
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Industrial machinery and electronic equipment lead the nation's export list.
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Loose clothing and jewelry can easily get caught in the machinery .
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the machinery of government
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The package says you shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery after taking these pills.
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We've come to depend on labor-saving machinery .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Employment in electrical machinery trebled, again increasing its share by half a million.
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I saw them passing enormous sheets of colored paper and cardboard through the sharp blade of humming, dangerous machinery .
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Pressure on costs will lead to improvements in harvesting machinery and more sensitive use of cleaners.
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Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
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They are vital for cleaning machinery tubes and spouts from vending machines and milk shake dispensers to full blown process machinery.
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They had invested heavily in their branded products and in the machinery to make them.
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Washing-machines, and similar sorts of domestic machinery , are intended to save our time and labour.
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What I object to is the craze for machinery , not machinery as such.