oil future

1. 1.

   petroleum bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

   Synonymspetroleum future

   Broaderfuture

Questions about oil future

What does oil future mean?

oil future means "petroleum bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date".

What is another word for oil future?

Close synonyms include petroleum future. 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 oil future a common word?

oil future 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.