designating or of a material, esp. a metal, that requires further processing to produce a finished product
semifinished in American English
(ˌsemiˈfɪnɪʃt, ˌsemai-)
adjective
1.
partially or almost finished
2. (of a manufactured object)
being in a form suitable for working easily into a finished product
Word origin
[1900–05; semi- + finished]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, clone, decompression, geopolitics, internshipsemi- is a combining form borrowed from Latin, meaning “half,” freely prefixed to Englishwords of any origin, now sometimes with the senses “partially,” “incompletely,” “somewhat”.Other words that use the affix semi- include: semiautomatic, semidetached, semimonthly, semisophisticated
Examples of 'semifinished' in a sentence
semifinished
Semifinished steel and railway products have been through similar declines.