Czech: stroj (cs) m, mašina (cs) f ( colloquial ).He was thrust into a political maelstrom for which he was ill-prepared, and yet he was, most notably, the Chicago machine's political savior. Holli, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition, SIU Press →ISBN, page 126 In essence, therefore, the right-fork strategy of the Democrats meant an alliance of the South with the political machines built on the non-Protestant immigrants in key Northeastern states. Hough, Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-blue State Alignment, Algora Publishing →ISBN, page 37 1902, The Friend A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket (as be and his clique of party bosses prepare it) should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party.( politics, chiefly US ) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.( General American ) IPA ( key): /məˈʃin/ġ712 May 2, Joseph Addison, “MONDAY, Ap”, in The Spectator, number 351 republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator a New Edition,, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697: I am apt to think, that the changing of the Trojan fleet into water-nymphs, which is the most violent machine in the whole Æneid.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key): /məˈʃiːn/.
Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina ( “ a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick ” ), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ ( mākhanā́ ), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή ( mēkhanḗ, “ a machine, engine, contrivance, device ” ), from which comes mechanical.