Words similar to machine-making

Example sentences for: machine-making

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The coalfields of Lothian and Fife fueled the growth of baking, distilling, printing, and machine-making industries, giving Edinburgh the epithet “Auld Reekie” (Old Smoky).
Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.