1.
[syn: materiel, equipage]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mat'eriel \Ma`t['e]`ri`el"\, n. [F. See Material.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Specifically: (Military) The arms, munitions, baggage,
equipment, provisions, etc., of an army.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
materiel
n 1: equipment and supplies of a military force [syn:
materiel, equipage]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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