matériel
noun
the aggregate of things used or needed in any business, undertaking, or operation (distinguished from personnel).
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matériel
American
[muh-teer-ee-el]
/ məˌtɪər iˈɛl /
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materiel
noun
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the aggregate of things used or needed in any business, undertaking, or operation (distinguished from personnel).
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Military. arms, ammunition, and equipment in general.
materiel
British
/ məˌtɪərɪˈɛl /
noun
Etymology
Origin of matériel
From French, dating back to 1805–15; see origin at material
Example Sentences
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“We have a very robust logistics network that enables us to move matériel very quickly as we’ve done in the past,” General Ryder said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Both sides made outsize investments in men and matériel to take and hold a relatively small and now-devastated city, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
And it remains unclear how far President Vladimir V. Putin intends to press the offensive, or how much more loss of men and matériel his military can absorb without needing a long pause to rebuild.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
Japan, which has forsworn combat since the end of World War II, had not sent military matériel to another country in the midst of fighting a war in more than 75 years.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
His list of matériel liberated from the Union Army during the 1862 Shenandoah campaign included “six handkerchiefs, two and three quarter dozen neckties, and one bottle of red ink.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Every March 27 he oversees a parade of troops and materiel in the capital Naypyidaw for Armed Forces Day, standing on an open-top jeep and festooned with his many military and civilian awards.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
The materiel includes the advanced Chinese-made drones along with small arms, heavy machine guns, vehicles, artillery, mortars and ammunition, the officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The women took jobs as welders, pipe fitters, and other posts that had only ever been held by men, and produced war materiel at a record clip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
Even the underground bunkers in which the materiel was stored may not have been totally destroyed.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
In an effort to stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt imposed ever-increasing embargoes on materiel, such as scrap metal and aviation fuel.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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