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OILMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oilman mean?
• OILMAN (noun)
The noun OILMAN has 2 senses:
1. a person who owns or operates oil wells
2. a worker who produces or sells petroleum
Familiarity information: OILMAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who owns or operates oil wells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("oilman" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oilman"):
wildcatter (an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A worker who produces or sells petroleum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("oilman" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oilman"):
oil rigger; rigger (someone who works on an oil rig)
Context examples
“That’s how Jack Slack thrashed Boughton, and I myself saw Hooper, the tinman, beat to pieces by the fighting oilman. They all come to it in time, and now it’s Harrison’s turn.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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