OIL BUSINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil business mean? 

• OIL BUSINESS (noun)
  The noun OIL BUSINESS has 1 sense:

1. an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products

  Familiarity information: OIL BUSINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL BUSINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

oil business; oil industry; refining industry

Hypernyms ("oil business" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "oil business"):

oil company (a company that sells oil)

pipeline company (a company that operates oil pipelines for the oil industry)

 Context examples 

"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now." He looked at me with more attention. "Do you mean you've been thinking over what I proposed the other night?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)