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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

... 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

Words linked to "Materiel" : equipment, baggage, equipage, military, armed forces, military machine