raw material

American  

noun

1. material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.

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raw material British  

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of raw material

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Example Sentences

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raw material

"You can think of it as the first step in a chain reaction: Physical stress unlocks the raw material, oxidative stress drives the conversion, and DHRS7 amplifies the signal."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

However, for 2027, Renault pointed to increases in raw material costs, memory and electronic pricing, so the challenges for costs clearly persist in the quarters ahead, the bank adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

These are pre-production plastic pellets, about the size of a lentil, which are used as the raw material to manufacture nearly all everyday plastic goods.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

By transmuting common uranium into a fissionable product that could be extracted chemically, Seaborg calculated, they could increase the supply of raw material available for a bomb by a hundredfold.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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