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Provided is a cold work tool material capable of reducing dimensional changes which occur, due to heat treatment, in the longitudinal direction of the material during quenching and tempering. This cold work tool material is drawn through hot working, has an annealed structure including carbides, and is used after being quenched and tempered, wherein, in the annealed structure which is formed in a cross section parallel to a drawing direction due to the hot working of the cold work tool material, the standard deviation in the degree of orientation of carbides Oc, as determined by equation (1) below, is 6.0 or more for carbides having a circle equivalent diameter of 5.0 μm or greater as observed in the annealed structure in the cross section at right angle to a direction perpendicular to the drawing direction. Oc=D×θ . . . (1), where D represents the circle equivalent diameter (μm) of the carbide, and θ represents the angle (rad) between the major axis of an approximate ellipse of the carbide and the drawing direction. A cold work tool using the cold work tool material and a method for manufacturing the same are also provided.

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