oil company

1. 1.

   a company that sells oil

   Broadercompany

   Part ofoil industry

Questions about oil company

What does oil company mean?

oil company means "a company that sells oil".

Is oil company a common word?

oil company 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.