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machinations

[mak-uh-ney-shuhn]

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noun

an act or instance of machinating.

Usually, machinations. crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English machinacion < Latin māchinātiōn- (stem of māchinātiō). See machinate, -ion

Related forms

an·ti·mach·i·na·tion, adjective

Synonyms
2. stratagem, device.

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Through the machinations of the ring, the firm has been relieved of thousands of dollars worth of goods and money.

The extent of his machinations seemed more personal than professional.

On the brighter side, these machinations have stirred opposition.

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Through the machinations of the ring, the firm has been relieved of thousands of dollars worth of goods and money.

The extent of his machinations seemed more personal than professional.

On the brighter side, these machinations have stirred opposition.

The disappearances have been attributed to the machinations of enormous sea monsters, giant squid, or extra-terrestrials.

Much of the program involved the daily machinations of pirate life.

Once again, when all is said and done however, viruses are utterly indifferent to the machinations of humans.

It's the location of the new offices that raises questions about political machinations.

She particularly welcomes correspondence on the machinations of hiring committees.

Machinations aside, jurisprudence about clerical rights is evolving fast and unpredictably.

For those of us that use one for certain tasks and the other for different functions, leave us to our machinations.

The machinations on campuses are medieval, quite literally.

But their hands have always been tied by bureaucratic machinations.

Or, put another way, a brace of expository samples defied my cerebral machinations.

In this brooding drama, the lives of four sisters are nearly destroyed by the machinations of their overbearing father.

His political inclinations are as little-known as the machinations that brought him up through the ranks.

Both see in gold a purity that transcends the machinations of the merely mortal.

Her machinations finally catch up with her, but not before she sets a tragedy in motion.

The girl's machinations result in the death of practically every member of the group.

Well perhaps the government should do some managing in the industry that its machinations created.

Marketing services are what he prefers to call all of the machinations generally labeled sales promotion.

Few artists have invented so many ways to convert the machinations of ego and id into image.

Douglas will resume his machinations on a global scale in.

It merely makes him unprincipled, and therefore vulnerable to the wicked machinations of others.

As the summer wears on, his machinations begin to have an effect on the couple's stability.

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Word Origin & History

machination

late 15c., "a plotting, intrigue," from L. machinationem (nom. machinatio) "device, contrivance, machination," from machinatus, pp. of machinari "contrive, plot," from machina (see machine). Related: Machinations.

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"The sick are parasites on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To continue vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to occasion a deep contempt within society."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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