Raw-material meaning

Raw material is goods or products which are used in manufacturing or unprocessed products which are used in the creation of some final product.

An example of a raw material is the wood that is used to make furniture.

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Anything that is capable of being processed, converted, changed, etc. to produce something else.

Her personal experiences could provide the raw material for a really good novel.

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Unprocessed material of any kind.

These data are the raw material for the analysis.

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Material still in its natural or original state, before processing or manufacture.
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A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.

Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.

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(figuratively) Any input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.

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An unprocessed natural product used in manufacture.
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Raw-material Sentence Examples

  • At this period the supply of the raw material was insufficient to admit of any important development in the industry, and before the drilling of artesian wells for petroleum was initiated by Drake the " coal-oil " or shale-oil industry had assumed considerable proportions in the United States.

  • machinery, or semi-manufactured goods which serve as raw material for those industries.

  • The principal classes of products affected are foods, wearing apparel, building materials, furniture, &c., chemical products, printing and allied trades, and sundry others, such as cigars, matches, tanning, paints, &c. In some manufactures the raw material is imported partly manufactured, such as thread for weaving.

  • The only practically available raw material for 'the extraction of uranium is pitchblende (q.v.).

  • For roll, twist of pigtail tobacco the raw material is damped or sauced as in the case of cut tobacco.

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