ingredient
♦ in|gre|di|ent /ɪngr'iːdiənt/ (ingredients)
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Ingredients are the things that are used to make something, especially all the different foods you use when you are cooking a particular dish.
Mix in the remaining ingredients.
2 [N-COUNT] oft N of/in n
An ingredient of a situation is one of the essential parts of it.
The meeting had all the ingredients of high political drama...
1 [N-COUNT]
Ingredients are the things that are used to make something, especially all the different foods you use when you are cooking a particular dish.
Mix in the remaining ingredients.
2 [N-COUNT] oft N of/in n
An ingredient of a situation is one of the essential parts of it.
The meeting had all the ingredients of high political drama...