oil production

1. 1.

   the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

   Synonymsboringdrilling

   Broaderproduction

Questions about oil production

What does oil production mean?

oil production means "the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum".

What is another word for oil production?

Close synonyms include boring, drilling. 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 production a common word?

oil production 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.