extractive
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extractive (comparative more extractive, superlative most extractive)
- That serves to extract something
- 1874, John Elliott Cairnes, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, newly Expounded:
- Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.
- That withdraws natural resources by extraction
- 2014, BusinessDictionary.com[1]:
- The extractive industry consists of any operations that remove metals, mineral and aggregates from the earth. Examples of extractive processes include oil and gas extraction, mining, dredging and quarrying.
- Able to be extracted
- 1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils:
- Thirty grains of extractive matter.
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extractive (plural extractives)
- Something that may be extracted
- The substance left behind after something has been extracted
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɛk.stʁak.tiv/
- Homophone: extractives
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extractive