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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foodstuff
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ Now, industrialised countries are almost self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs due to the use of fertilisers, mechanisation and larger farm units.
▪ In January 1990 delays in Soviet grain deliveries had led to price rises and the tighter rationing of basic foodstuffs.
▪ The urban economic reforms had led to price increases in basic foodstuffs and the introduction of private enterprise in the university canteens.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Prices of most foodstuffs and consumer goods have gone down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A law in April allowed the importation of foodstuffs into the northeastern provinces duty free which only encouraged fraud.
▪ Future food technologists will be well placed to create concentrated foodstuffs which rectify the known deficiencies in the diet.
▪ If consumers realize that they are likely to be contaminated by foodstuffs, they will not buy them.
▪ Many of those foodstuffs would stand no chance of approval were they invented today.
▪ Now, industrialised countries are almost self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs due to the use of fertilisers, mechanisation and larger farm units.
▪ Such goods include suites of furniture, children's clothing and children's foodstuffs.
▪ You will notice that each witness has chosen to discuss foodstuffs, especially pineapples, at the first opportunity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foodstuff

"substance or material suitable for food," 1870, from food + stuff (n.). Related: Foodstuffs.

Wiktionary
foodstuff

n. An instance of material which may be used as food.

WordNet
foodstuff

  1. n. (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer [syn: grocery]

  2. a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food [syn: food product]

Usage examples of "foodstuff".

As Lady Appleton began to speak, introducing herself to her new neighbors and explaining that she wished to hire servants and purchase foodstuffs, Jennet sensed invisible barriers going up, dense as any stone wall and just as impervious to sweet reason.

As long as this world remained warm inside and the homeostatic slave intelligences continued to channel energy to the various systems, the base would live, its synthesizers producing air and foodstuffs, more than he would ever need.

By now Peter was aware, having seen those facilities, that First Base produced all its foodstuffs, fresh from hydroponic tanks or the protein vats.

Most of the crops of Makassar are Earth stock, they have a very wide variety of such foodstuffs but getting an edible crop takes constant attention.

Prepare by finding natural sources of water and foods and bring and store as much nonperishable foodstuffs as you can.

The pretty servingwoman pulled back the heavy cloth that had been draped over the foodstuffs in her wagon, and she began distributing bread with the efficiency of long practice, aided again by the father.

Local bike tours will rent you a bike, take you on one of their organized excursions to wineries, provide a gourmet lunch featuring local foodstuffs, and also carry any wine you purchase and even help with shipping it home.

Sancho and Abdullah, as many large, footed silver trays of Moorish designs filled with wide assortments of nuts, fruits, and stranger foodstuffs.

The centauroids, on the other hand, were fascinated by the decomposing foodstuffs in the composters.

They should be, but human foodstuffs were notorious for being less than smart about certain matters.

He took just a moment to run into the shed for his toolbox, grabbing up a water container and some dried foodstuffs that he kept around to nibble on, then bolted back out the door.

Tagwen, tossing the bag of foodstuffs and the water container onto the deck.

Still, the hunter and the soya products notwithstanding, I refused to go out with no foodstuffs at all.

Banichi and Jago and four staff, felicitous seven, thank you, plus our foodstuffs, our furnishings, our belongings.

If you enter with order and aid, distributing foodstuffs, restoring trade, they will hail you as a liberator.