machinelike

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ma⋅chine⋅like

[muh-sheen-lahyk]

–adjective

like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.

Origin:
1690–1700; machine + -like

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machinelike
adjective
resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic 'thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: automatic]

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