raw material
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2.8
- noun
- /rɔː məˈtɪəriəl/
- Specialized
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materia prima
- In construction, concrete is often made from raw material such as sand, gravel, and crushed stone.
- raw materials and energy
- import raw materials
- source of raw materials
Cooking takes raw materials and transforms them.
- Cooking takes raw materials and transforms them.
- By resources, I don't just mean raw materials, but also goods and human resources.
- You have to deliver to the cell all of the raw materials it needs every day.
- It provides a source of valuable raw materials.
- Cotton is a very rough raw material.
- So we have three things, raw materials, production costs and exchange rate fluctuations.
- It just means that the raw material to create life is not unique to this planet.
- It's built around taking new lands where they can acquire new raw materials, new money, and frankly, more slaves.
- So there's lots of raw material that gets embraced here.
- But remember the raw materials, I are bought by companies.
- So these sorts of, you know, raw materials for life are really common.
- The the ethics of different fiber types in terms of the raw material to finish thread production.
Examples
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They grow the cotton in India or Egypt, they send the raw materials to Britain.
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You have to deliver to the cell all of the raw materials it needs every day.
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Second, the cost of raw material and waste treatment is reduced.
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Thus, they made excellent raw material for soldiers.
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One of the first things we're going to need is the raw material.
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What is not known is exactly where these raw materials came from.
Academic text (2008) -
Production of industrial raw materials rose 60 percent in the war period.
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This should be the raw material for poems and stories.
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Subsequently, competition among businesses for the raw material limited its distribution.
Academic text (2017) -
Children collected much of the raw material from roadsides and old fields.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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3.9
A raw material like wheat or oil that people buy and sell in large amounts
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7.4
Raw material used in a factory to make products or energy
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Etymology
Raw material is the simple, natural stuff used to make other things. Imagine a pile of raw wood or unspun cotton: these materials are not finished yet and are used to make the final products, so the phrase means 'a basic substance used to make goods'.