war machine
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war machine
- /ˈwɔː məˌʃiːn/ UK
- /ˈwɔːɹ məˌʃiːn/ UK
- /ˈwoɹ məˌʃin/ US
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From war + machine.
noun war machines
- An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]
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The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.
The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start of the war.
Similar: military-industrial complex
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noun weapon
| Deutsch | Kriegsmaschine, Kampfmaschine |
|---|---|
| Русский | боева́я маши́на bojevája mašína |
noun resources
| Français | machine de guerre |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Kriegsmaschinerie |
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title = {war machine},
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