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Oil company   /ɔɪl kˈəmpəni/   Listen
Oil company

noun
1.
A company that sells oil.





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"Oil company" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gaylor! It was a chap you don't know, I guess. I only ran up against him lately, since I sold my gusher to the United Oil Company. He's their lawyer—and does some work for the railroad too. Smart sort of man he seems to be, though kind of stiff when you first know him: between forty and forty-five, maybe: name's Henry Morehouse, a brother of a bank manager in ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... were such a whale of a success! I don't suppose you remember how you used to yawp to me about the job being too much for you! And yet when I want a little sympathy you sit there and hand me the frozen stare like you were the president of the Standard Oil Company and I was a bum office-boy. Yes, sir, I tell you business simply unfits ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis


Words linked to "Oil company" :   oil industry, company, refining industry, oil business


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