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
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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
But some of the cards may unintentionally tip the hand of states that have tried to be opaque about the matériel they are sending.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
In other cases, they said, other buyers — including other allied countries — have snatched up the matériel before they could close the deal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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
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
The other allows the interdiction of ships that are providing materiel support to Iran, including ghost-fleet vessels and sanctioned ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"The RDF has introduced advanced military equipment to the battlefield in eastern DRC, including GPS jamming systems, air defense equipment, drones, and additional materiel," the statement said.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
"You're driving with rare earths when you're at the wheel of an electric car, and you need rare earths to make defence materiel like F-35 jets," he added.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 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
By February 1955, the tunnel was nearly done—complete with its own ventilation system and trolley for moving men and materiel along the full length of the narrow passageway.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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