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natural resource

noun

a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
natural resources, the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.

natural resource

Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans.
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First recorded in 1865–70

“Israeli men are our biggest natural resource when it comes to gay tourism,” says Rodrigue.

The practice of extracting payments from natural resource companies by threats of disruption and violence will continue.

To take his hat and go would have been his natural resource, but then he did not wish to be foiled in his object.

But as regards many another natural resource, scientific civilization teaches us how to preserve it through use.

For more than 60 years, the Forest Service has been serving the Nation as a leading natural resource conservation agency.

But tears and bewailings were not a natural resource with Polly, whose forte was action.

Silence was the natural resource, but silence is sometimes more eloquent than speech.

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