precious metal

1. 1.

   any of the less common and valuable metals often used to make coins or jewelry

   Broadervaluable

   Narrowerbulliongoldsilver

Questions about precious metal

What does precious metal mean?

precious metal means "any of the less common and valuable metals often used to make coins or jewelry".

Is precious metal a common word?

precious metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.