materia prima

f.

raw material, input material, commodity, crude material.

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materia prima

raw material

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(Econ, Tec) raw material; (Fin) commodity

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(n.) = raw material, staple diet, grist, primary raw material, feedstock

Ex. Abstracts which are to provide the raw material for input to a computerized information system are usually required to be entered on a form which shows the separate fields in the computer record.

Ex. All this will take place against the background of publishing in conventional forms which will remain the staple diet of libraries for many years yet.

Ex. The grist for many innovative kinds of disciplines is datasets that requires disciplinary integration.

Ex. The main accent is on primary raw materials, with particular emphasis on the extraction and use of uranium, and on the recycling of municipal and industrial wastes.

Ex. Information is the feedstock of knowledge.

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(Econ, Tec) raw material; (Fin) commodity

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(n.) = raw material, staple diet, grist, primary raw material, feedstock

Ex: Abstracts which are to provide the raw material for input to a computerized information system are usually required to be entered on a form which shows the separate fields in the computer record.

Ex: All this will take place against the background of publishing in conventional forms which will remain the staple diet of libraries for many years yet.

Ex: The grist for many innovative kinds of disciplines is datasets that requires disciplinary integration.

Ex: The main accent is on primary raw materials, with particular emphasis on the extraction and use of uranium, and on the recycling of municipal and industrial wastes.

Ex: Information is the feedstock of knowledge.

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materia prima

raw material