source materials

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   publications from which information is obtained

   Broadersource

Questions about source materials

What does source materials mean?

source materials means "publications from which information is obtained".

Is source materials a common word?

source materials 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.