basic steel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of basic steel
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The associations said that their member companies employed more than one million Americans, compared with just 80,000 jobs in basic steel production.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2018
Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fifth of the nation's basic steel capacity is still idle, but bottlenecks are developing in the rolling mills that form finished steel for autos.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the savings to be divided grow big enough, the union will let Kaiser store up some of them to be used to pay any future increases in basic steel wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Delafond, of Creuzot, and others, the basic steel is peculiarly suitable on account of its remarkable regularity.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
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