oil industry

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   an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products

   Synonymsrefining industryoil business

   Broaderindustry

Questions about oil industry

What does oil industry mean?

oil industry means "an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products".

What is another word for oil industry?

Close synonyms include refining industry, oil business. 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 industry a common word?

oil industry 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.