materiel

Etymology

Borrowed from French matériel. Doublet of material.

noun

  1. 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. 2012-12-15, Tudor Van Hampton, “Check-to-Check Combat Over Vintage War Matériel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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