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raw material

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raw material
n.
1. An unprocessed natural product used in manufacture.
2. Unprocessed material of any kind: These data are the raw material for the analysis.

raw material
n
1. material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
2. a person or thing regarded as suitable for some particular purpose raw material for the army
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Noun1.raw material - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishingraw material - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
feedstock - the raw material that is required for some industrial process
Translations
raw material
nRohmaterial nt
raw material nmateria prima


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He had very raw material, and doubtless most of his pupils failed to get the greatest lessons from him; but, as he had been a peculiarly receptive pupil of Dr.
She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material.
They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe.
 
 
 
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