cooking oil

1. 1.

   any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking

   Broadervegetable oil

Questions about cooking oil

What does cooking oil mean?

cooking oil means "any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking".

Is cooking oil a common word?

cooking oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.