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/mətˌɪriˈɛl/ Listen

noun

Materiel n.

Those objects in a complex system which constitute the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; for example, the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers; used in a collective sense.

Specifically: (Military) The arms, munitions, baggage, equipment, provisions, etc., of an army.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Materiel" Quotes from Famous Books

... another name for anarchy. The peace establishment of the emperor amounted to one hundred thousand men, and every one of these was necessary simply to garrison his fortresses. The enormous expense of the support of such an army, with all the outlays for the materiel of war, the cavalry, and the structure of vast fortresses, exhausted the revenues of a kingdom in which the masses of the people were so miserably poor that they were scarcely elevated above the beasts of the field, and where the finances had long been in almost irreparable ...

— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott

... drilled cohorts that we saw at Conaives. The President's guards were certainly fine men, and a squadron of dismounted cavalry, in splendid blue uniforms, with scarlet trowsers richly laced, might have vied with the elite of Nap's own, barring the black faces. But the materiel of the other regiments was not superfine, as M. Boyer, before whom they were defiling, ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott