Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
extractive .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word extractives.
Examples
-
Besides, meats contain flavoring and stimulating principles, called extractives, which increase the desire for them.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
-
As meat contains a comparatively large quantity of purins and other bodies called extractives, it is probable that such quantities have an injurious effect, quite apart from the question of uric acid production.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
-
Flavor in meat depends mainly on certain nitrogenous substances which are called extractives because they can be dissolved out or "extracted" by soaking the meat in cold water.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
-
Furthermore, civil society contends that this benchmark is arbitrary, in that the fiscal and developmental impacts of extractives projects "occur irrespective of the size of a country's total revenues."
Chad Dobson: Economist Jeffrey Sachs makes the case for contract transparency at Annual Meetings of World Bank/IMF Chad Dobson 2010
-
Tullow, however, is seeking to sell one-third of its shares to Total S.A., a French extractives company, and another one-third of its shares to the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), which are both registered with the SEC and file annual reports.
Janet Ranganathan: Can New SEC Disclosure Rules Bring Transparency to Uganda's Oil Sector? Janet Ranganathan 2010
-
We therefore applaud the recent announcement by the British, French and German governments that they will support mandatory extractives disclosure at the European Union level.
Sen. Dick Lugar: Libya: The Resource Curse Strikes Again Sen. Dick Lugar 2011
-
We therefore applaud the recent announcement by the British, French and German governments that they will support mandatory extractives disclosure at the European Union level.
Sen. Dick Lugar: Libya: The Resource Curse Strikes Again Sen. Dick Lugar 2011
-
Tullow, however, is seeking to sell one-third of its shares to Total S.A., a French extractives company, and another one-third of its shares to the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), which are both registered with the SEC and file annual reports.
Janet Ranganathan: Can New SEC Disclosure Rules Bring Transparency to Uganda's Oil Sector? Janet Ranganathan 2010
-
We therefore applaud the recent announcement by the British, French and German governments that they will support mandatory extractives disclosure at the European Union level.
Sen. Dick Lugar: Libya: The Resource Curse Strikes Again Sen. Dick Lugar 2011
-
One way this transformation can accelerate is if countries like Ghana use their natural resources for their people, and key to that is greater transparency in the extractives sector – something ONE is pushing hard for at the EU level right now.
Aid: 'We're not arguing for a culture of dependency. We're arguing to end it' 2012
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.