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  • noun Mechanization.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of mechanization.

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  • noun the condition of having a highly technical implementation
  • noun the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware

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Examples

  • Andy of Leeds was pointing out what I would call the mechanisation of murder under Socialism in the 20th Century alone.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Andy of Leeds was pointing out what I would call the mechanisation of murder under Socialism in the 20th Century alone.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Although traditional methods of production (especially in Africa) are more costly in manpower than for other yams, the introduction of complete field mechanisation, which is now a reality, should reduce production costs and make this crop more competitive as a tropical carbohydrate food and also enable it to maintain or improve its position on the export market.

    Chapter 37 1987

  • Tannias are of particular value for intercropping with plantation crops, but their future probably depends upon whether costs of production can be reduced by improved cultural techniques, such as mechanisation, the use of herbicides and the application of fertilisers.

    Chapter 31 1987

  • Economically the most important part of the yam is its tuber This can vary greatly in shape and size and makes manual harvesting very difficult and has so far prevented any kind of mechanisation in harvesting.

    4 Yams 1978

  • Agriculture must provide employment in rural areas to generate incomes for poor peoples, and labour-displacing farm mechanisation must be discouraged.

    Letters: Speculation, hunger and the global food trade 2011

  • Agriculture must provide employment in rural areas to generate incomes for poor peoples, and labour-displacing farm mechanisation must be discouraged.

    Letters: Speculation, hunger and the global food trade 2011

  • Charting the mechanisation of the Donbas area of the Ukraine, it is an aural assault of collaged industrial sounds, as harsh, heavy and blaring as the work itself.

    Marx at the movies 2011

  • It's a mechanical plot and Mitchell is drawn to mechanisation.

    A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

  • Sure there might have been some mechanisation back then.

    Chainsaw Safety | ATTACKERMAN 2009

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