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What does raw material mean?

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Noun
  1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.
  2. (figuratively) Any input to a factory or other installation which processes it.
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They would be able to bring some cost discipline to the production of their key raw material.
We've got steel, the raw material, we've got the forgers, we've got the casters, the benders, the twisters and the fabricators.
The problem for utilities is that they operate in a tightly regulated market, but their raw material cost is fossil fuel.
Here is something more than raw material from which a successful literature was forged.
Just as our evolved visual preferences are the raw material for visual art, so our evolved tactile preferences are the raw material for massage.
However, green tea exported from Thailand is mostly used as a raw material for consumer products.

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