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Meaning of machine age | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.

Examples

“The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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