precious metal
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈprɛʃəs ˈmɛtəl/
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metal precioso
- I am highly interested in investing in precious metals such as gold and silver.
- gold and other precious metals
Call the only precious metal dealers I trust, American Hartford Gold.
- Call the only precious metal dealers I trust, American Hartford Gold.
- His, well, we assume it's his horse's head, was buried with him and it was covered with precious metal.
- He adulterated it with various impurities in order to stretch out the supply of precious metal.
- It's an instrument that often was made out of precious metals because it was only for special people like surveyors.
- Well the bank doesn't do anything in terms of moving precious metal around or any of this stuff.
- How could I live without my precious metals?
- Tangible assets, agriculture, commodities, food, energy, precious metals, land will never be worth nothing.
- So it's much more it's, it's, it's an easier type of currency to transact and rather than precious metals.
Examples
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You could have weighed out precious metal, which would be money.
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Very few people are buyers of precious metals when compared to other asset classes.
Blog text (9) -
But the truth is that I regard physical precious metals as insurance.
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Others are rare and valuable, like gold, and are called precious metals.
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Michael became an active investor in real estate, art, precious metals, and various businesses.
Blog text (5) -
The solution might be diversification into precious metals, gold and silver.
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The ring is made of a precious metal that will not tarnish, that will not perish.
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And there's commodities like precious metals, gold, silver, oil, things like that.
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Consequently, farmland, commercial and residential property, and precious metals became much more expensive as people sought to shelter their wealth.
Academic text (1993) -
Gold is a valuable precious metal that is often used in jewelry and investment.
Synonyms
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6.4
A metal that does not get damaged by air or water, like gold and platinum
Antonyms
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a rare, high-value metal' is directly compositional from 'precious' (of high monetary or market value) modifying 'metal' (a chemical element), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase meaning. This adjective+noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of noun modification and is therefore immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Precious metal comes from the simple idea of a rare metal like gold or silver that people kept because it was precious, or very valuable. Long ago these metals were used for coins and jewelry to show wealth, so today precious metal means a metal that is rare and worth a lot.