materiel

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materiel

  • /mətɪəɹɪˈɛl/ UK
  • /mətɪɹiˈɛl/ US
  • /mətɪɹˈjɛl/ US

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Borrowed from French matériel. Doublet of material.

noun materiels · matériel

  1. countable, uncountable Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies. Instead, it was a 1941 Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82, the first acquisition in a collection of war matériel begun 10 years ago by Mr. Coffman, a refrigeration service technician from Marengo, Ill.

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noun military equipment, apparatus and supplies

Españolmaterial militar, material bélico
中文軍需品 /军需品 jūnxūpǐn, 軍需 /军需 jūnxū
Portuguêsmaterial militar
Françaismatériel
DeutschAusrüstung
Italianoequipaggiamento, materiale, armamenti
Русскийиму́щество imúščestvo, те́хника téxnika, матча́сть matčástʹ

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@misc{materiel_2026,
  title = {materiel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/materiel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}