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oilman

/oil-man, -muhn/US // ˈɔɪlˌmæn, -mən //UK // (ˈɔɪlmən) //

油人,油家,油家们,油家子弟

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural oil·men [oil-men, -muhn]. /ˈɔɪlˌmɛn, -mən/.

    • : a person who owns or operates oil wells or an executive in the petroleum industry.
    • : a person who retails or delivers oil, especially fuel oil for furnaces.

Examples

  • Arkady Gaydamak, a Russian-Israeli oilman and financier, explained his elite view of accumulating wealth to me in 2005.

  • This year, the former oilman has talked to at least two energy conferences in Texas.

  • The firm is owned by Robert Rowling, a Dallas-based oilman and major bankroller of conservative causes.

  • The oilman airs soft-focus ads promoting wind power (wind is about right).

  • Fox, debtor and bankrupt as he was, had taken lodgings with Fitzpatrick at an oilman's in Piccadilly.

  • That's right; from the main line in Philadelphia, and a daughter of a prominent industrialist and oilman.

  • The cheap kerosene-oil from Baku or New York threatens the oilman's existence.

  • No one ever saw a bullock lick a strange bullock or cow and so they awarded the calf to the oilman.

  • There was once an oilman with five sons and they were all married and lived jointly with their father.