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natural resources

natural resources is the plural of natural resource.

Meaning of natural resource

Noun

natural resource (plural natural resources)

  1. Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially surface water, groundwater, minerals, fossil fuels, timber, wild game, soil quality, and air quality.
    • There’s so much Trump in Joe: the overbearing and vainglorious rhetoric, the hogging of all natural resources, the willingness to treat people like property, the disappointing offspring.2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club

Questions about natural resources

What is natural resources the plural of?
Natural resources is the plural of natural resource.

Words near natural resources in the dictionary

  1. natural religion
  2. natural religions
  3. natural reserve
  4. natural reserves
  5. natural resource
  6. natural resources
  7. natural right
  8. natural rights
  9. natural rubber
  10. natural science
  11. natural sciences

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