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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