natural resource

English

Noun

natural resource (plural natural resources)

Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially minerals, fossil fuels, timber, etc.
- 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  There’s so much Trump in Joe: the overbearing and vainglorious rhetoric, the hogging of all natural resources, the willingness to treat people like property, the disappointing offspring.

Translations

source of wealth that occurs naturally

Catalan: recurs natural m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 資源 (zh), 资源 (zh) (zīyuán), 自然資源 (zh), 自然资源 (zh) (zìrán zīyuán)
Czech: přírodní zdroj m
Dutch: grondstof (nl) f
Finnish: luonnonvara (fi), luonnonrikkaus
French: ressource naturelle (fr) f
Galician: recurso natural m
German: natürliche Ressource f
Italian: risorsa naturale f
Japanese: 天然資源 (てんねんしげん, tennenshigen), 自然資源 (しぜんしげん, shizenshigen)
Maori: rawawhenua, rawa taiao

Norwegian:
Bokmål: naturressurs (no) m

Nynorsk: naturressurs m
Portuguese: recurso natural m
Romanian: resursă naturală f, resurse naturale (ro) f pl
Serbo-Croatian: prirodno bogatstvo n
Spanish: recurso natural (es) m
Swedish: naturtillgång (sv) c, naturresurs (sv) c
Tagalog: likas na yaman, likas na kayamanan
Thai: ทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ (th) (sáp-pá-yaa-gɔɔn-tam-má-châat)
Yakut: айылҕа баайа (ayılğa baaya)

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