plastic
noun (SUBSTANCE) /ˈplæs.tɪk/Definition
A2 [C or U] an artificial substance that can be shaped when soft into many different forms and has many different uses: He put a sheet of plastic over the broken window. Those flowers aren't real - they're made of plastic.Plastics and rubber plastics [U] › the process or business of producing plastic: The company has moved into plastics. the plastics industryPlastics and rubberIndustrial processingIndustry and industrial processes
(Definition of plastic noun (SUBSTANCE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- heavy industry noun
- industrial adjective
- industrialization noun
- industrialize verb
- industrialized adjective
- industry-wide adjective, adverb
- just-in-time adjective
- light industry noun
- manufacture noun
- manufacture verb (PRODUCE)
- manufacturing noun
- mining noun
- prefabricated adjective
- quality control noun
- raw adjective (NOT PROCESSED)
- smokestack industry noun
- synthetic adjective
- trade noun (BUSINESS)
- vulcanized adjective
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