NATURAL RESOURCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural resources mean? 

• NATURAL RESOURCES (noun)
  The noun NATURAL RESOURCES has 1 sense:

1. resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

  Familiarity information: NATURAL RESOURCES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL RESOURCES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

natural resource; natural resources

Hypernyms ("natural resources" is a kind of...):

resource (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural resources"):

land resources (natural resources in the form of arable land)

mineral resources (natural resources in the form of minerals)

renewable resource (any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time)

 Context examples 

The engineering discipline concerned with the environment and management of natural resources.

(Environmental Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

This research has important implications for the conservation and management of natural resources, especially related to natural hazards such as earthquakes as well as the impacts of human visitation.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

The amount of delivered mass needed for human exploration could be greatly reduced by using Martian natural resources for a water supply and as raw material for producing hydrogen fuel.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

The legend of Erik the Red itself may mask what Barrett calls “ecological globalisation”: the chasing of natural resources as supply dwindles.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)