Meaning

2 senses
  1. An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.

    Kriegsmaschine, Kampfmaschine

    боева́я маши́наbojevája mašína

  2. 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.

    Kriegsmaschinerie

More definitions
  • the military forces of a nation

Examples

9 sentences
  1. For war machines, countries always have money.

    deFür Kriegsmaschinen haben Länder immer Geld.

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  2. I'm here to make you into war machines.

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  3. Another day living in the war machine we call civilization.

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  4. The French language has capitulated to the Anglophone war machine.

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  5. The French language has surrendered to the Anglophone war machine.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
weapon:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
weapon:
resources:

Origin

From war + machine.

From war + machine.

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Forms

plural: war machines
Singularwar machine
Pluralwar machines

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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