raw material
Americannoun
noun
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material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
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a person or thing regarded as suitable for some particular purpose
raw material for the army
Etymology
Origin of raw material
First recorded in 1790–1800
Example Sentences
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The raw material for this enterprise is a 2012 tweet by El-Sayed’s half-sister describing a conversation with their mother about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the early 1970s.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Besides a growing reliance on inputs and raw material, Chinese imports to India are also being propelled by other macroeconomic trends.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The findings add to growing evidence that nutrients do more than simply provide raw material for the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Excluding crude energy products, raw material prices were up 1.1% from July and 17.2% compared with a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Considering the urgency of finding a way “to free us from the raw material bottleneck,” he said, “if we can do that for a few hundred million dollars, why, let’s get going and do it.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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