material
She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.她将废弃材料卖给纺织公司，从中赚取大笔利润。
The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.在某种程度上，纺织业仍然依靠廉价劳动力。
His pictures use textiles and found objects.
We only use the finest textiles for our upholstery.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Textiles: general words
baize
Bargello
bias
brocade
cloth
cutpiece
denier
mesh
multi-stranded
multifilament
nap
padding
pile
pill
reweave
strand
suiting
the weft
webbed
yarn

textile | American Dictionary

textile
noun[ C ]
us/ˈteks·tɑɪl, ·tɪl/
a cloth, esp. one that is woven:
Imports of textiles rose last year.

textile | Business English

textile
noun
 COMMERCEuk /ˈtekstaɪl/us
[ C or U ]
cloth made by hand or machine in large quantities:
The company is a major exporter of textiles and clothing.
a textile company/manufacturer/plant
the textile business/industry/market
 textiles[ plural ]
the industry that makes cloth in large quantities:
The 132,000 new jobs do not come from agriculture, shipbuilding, or textiles.

Examples of textile

textile
With the second national textile contract in 1927, unions thus got the exclusive right to hire.
This representation of rich textiles and fabrics served to heighten the illusion of the grandeur, the splendour and the power of the king.
But the new unions, at least in textiles, were not company unions.
In the manufacturing sector, the main areas of funding were chemicals, food products, metals, clothing, and textiles and forest products.
The eastern belt, the predominant industrial labour area, is the city of chimneys of the textile mills.
By the end of the century there were four large textile mills running in the city.
But later, the textile mills came up to the right of the railway line.
This period also witnessed an increase in railroad mileage as well as growth in such industries as timbering, sawmills, and cotton textile mills.
In textile and jute industries, sardars were labour contractors and their status depended on how many labour hands they brought to the industry.
Another inherent problem when dealing with textile fibres is the diversity of raw materials used in the industry.
The textile sector managed to do so to a significant degree, though not without difficulties and failures.
This was the case for food, textiles and other sectors.
Often supported by law, textile workers continued their attempts to obtain better work conditions, which led them into increasing conflict with factory authority.
Textile workers laboured six days a week before, during and after the revolution.
Not all proletarian textile families had a similarly comfortable life.
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