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heavy machinery

heavy machinery noun: industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.

Noun

heavy machinery (uncountable)

  1. Industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
    • You shouldn't operate heavy machinery without a licence.
    • The heavy machinery industry of China, including the manufacture of iron and steel plant, rolling mill, heavy—duty forging and pressing machinery, large forgings and castings, etc., developed along a hard and tortuous road from small products to huge ones, from single machines to complete plants...1991, China Machinery Industries Yearbook, page 35
    Synonyms:
    heavy equipment
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, machinery.

Synonyms of heavy machinery

Questions about heavy machinery

What does heavy machinery mean?
Heavy machinery means industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
What part of speech is heavy machinery?
Heavy machinery is a noun.

Words near heavy machinery in the dictionary

  1. heavy legs
  2. heavy lift
  3. heavy lifting
  4. heavy machine gun
  5. heavy machine guns
  6. heavy machinery
  7. heavy man
  8. heavy marching order
  9. heavy men
  10. heavy metal
  11. heavy metal umlaut

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