drilling rig

1. 1.

   rig used in drilling for oil or gas

   Synonymsdrill rigoilrigoil rig

   Broaderrig

   Narrowerdrilling platform

Questions about drilling rig

What does drilling rig mean?

drilling rig means "rig used in drilling for oil or gas".

What is another word for drilling rig?

Close synonyms include drill rig, oilrig, oil rig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drilling rig a common word?

drilling rig 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.