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How to spell machinery

Machinery is spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E-R-Y.

What it means: Mechanical equipment used to do work.

In a sentence: The farmer uses big machinery to plow the fields. ▶

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Same family: machine, mechanism, mechanical, mechanics, machinist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Machinery” comes from the word “machine,” which entered English from French and ultimately from the Greek word “mēkhanē,” meaning a device or means. Over time, “machinery” shifted from meaning literal machines to also describing the organized systems and processes that keep institutions and governments running.

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