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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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Just as our evolved visual preferences are the raw material for visual art, so our evolved tactile preferences are the raw material for massage.
The problem for utilities is that they operate in a tightly regulated market, but their raw material cost is fossil fuel.
As part of this programme, hostel cooks were taught the dos and don'ts of purchasing vegetables, serving food, preserving food and raw material.
Those resources have now almost run out, putting a premium on firms producing the raw material.
Here is something more than raw material from which a successful literature was forged.
Refining alcohol would use tapioca as a raw material and the new industry is expected to lift the price of this agricultural product.

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