ADJ
- great, huge, large, powerful
- automatic, electronic
- labour-saving
- ingenious, versatile
- sophisticated
- reliable
- defective
- cash, coffee, exercise, fax, sewing, (telephone) answering, vending, video, washing
- kidney, life-support
- The crash victim is now on a life-support machine
VERB + MACHINE
- operate, use, work
- install
- We've had a new washing machine installed
- start, stop
- plug in, unplug
- build, make
- service
- design
- The machine is designed to fit under a counter
MACHINE + VERB
- go, work
- Have you got the machine working again?
- break down
- run
- The machine runs on solar power
MACHINE + NOUN
- operator
- parts
- tool
- machine tools for making weapons
PREP
- by
- The potatoes are planted by machine
- in a/the ~
- Just put those clothes in the machine (= the washing machine)
- on a/the ~
- I make my own dresses on my sewing machine
- ~ for
- a machine for making coffee
PHRASES
- a make of machine
- What make of machine are they using?
ADJ
- party, political
- The independent candidates did not have the support of a party machine
- administrative, government, state
- propaganda, publicity
- military, war
- the president's propaganda machine
PHRASES
- a cog in the machine (figurative)
- Tired of being a tiny cog in a vast machine, he handed in his resignation
- a well-oiled machine
- (figurative) The department ran like a well-oiled machine since the reorganization