3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

materiel

noun: equipment and supplies of a military force [syn: {equipage}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Mat'eriel \Ma't['e]'ri'el"\, noun [F. See {Material}.] That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "materiel": abundance, accouterments, accumulation, amassment, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, backlog, budget, collection, commissariat, commissary, conveniences, cornucopia, cumulation, duffel, dump, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, habiliments, heap, hoard, impedimenta, installations, inventory, kit, larder, machinery, mass, material, material resources, materials, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, pile, plant, plenitude, plenty, plumbing, provisionment, provisions, rations, raw material, repertoire, repertory, rick, rig, rigging, stack, staple, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stuff, substances, supplies, supply, supply on hand, tackle, tackling, things, treasure, treasury, utensils

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