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OIL INDUSTRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oil industry mean?
• OIL INDUSTRY (noun)
The noun OIL INDUSTRY has 1 sense:
1. an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products
Familiarity information: OIL INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 industry" is a kind of...):
industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)
Meronyms (members of "oil industry"):
oil company (a company that sells oil)
pipeline company (a company that operates oil pipelines for the oil industry)
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