a raw deal

raw | Business English

raw
adjective
uk /rɔː/us
NATURAL RESOURCES, PRODUCTION
used to describe materials that are in their natural state and have not yet been changed, prepared, or used to make something else:
raw ingredients
Cotton mills buy the raw cotton and turn it into finished cloth.
Cheese and yogurt producers have to pay high prices for raw milk and other supplies.
used to describe information that has been collected, but has not yet been studied in detail:
We were given a large quantity of raw data.
As yet we are only able to give you the raw figures before adjustments.
 a raw deal
bad or unfair treatment:
get/be given a raw dealWe are getting a raw deal from federal tax and spending policies.

Examples of raw

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Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
Table 5 displays, in raw numbers and percentages, the distribution of correctly and incorrectly used present-tense finite and nonfinite verb forms.
Simple descriptive statistics, raw counts, and percentages of each participant may be sufficient in certain cases.
The numbers in parentheses give the raw scores.
Given only raw geometry data in the form of a mesh, it might be costly to compute the weight functions.
Given equivalent retest correlations, the effect size is increased by larger differences in raw scores and decreased by larger variance.
Raw materials, for example, can be located far away, or crops may not grow in certain climates or seasons.
From the tools themselves archaeologists can reconstruct a variety of actions: raw material selectivity and procurement, manufacturing sequences, use, and discard.
Such a person might express his religious views in subtle ways, such as the choice of raw material for his artistic creations.
Both raw word frequency and word frequency adjusted for dispersion were considered.
His materials were not ' raw ' but embedded in discourses which were already politically specific.
Drinking raw milk is always a risk factor for enteric diseases.
Eggs or raw egg products were then added to the mixture.
In the first, the different structures represent independent refinements against the raw data and do not ' see ' each other.
To represent this relationship graphically, growers were assigned raw scores denoting how many practices they had adopted within each category.
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