beneficiate, verb
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English beneficiate ‘process raw materials to extract minerals or other substances in preparation for further processing’ (Oxford South African Concise Dictionary, 2010).
Process raw materials at their point of origin, to increase their economic value locally, instead of exporting or selling them in unrefined form.
- Note:
- Used originally with reference to minerals, now applied to other products.
2011 michanli.co.za (DSAE Corpus)We are always looking at opportunities to beneficiate the andalusite and milling our own materials.
2017 businesslive.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Then we kid ourselves that if only we could “beneficiate” our own minerals rather than allow foreigners to mine them and ship them out we would be able to remake ourselves.
Process raw materials at their point of origin, to increase their economic value locally, instead of exporting or selling them in unrefined form.
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