big oil
The world's largest oil and gas companies, understood as a business group having…The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
» Algeria is a big exporter of oil.
Meaning
1 senses(derogatory, uncountable)The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
Examples
6 sentencesAlgeria is a big exporter of oil.
Algeria's biggest industry is oil and gas.
Angola is one of the world's biggest oil exporters.
Algeria has big reserves of oil and natural gas.
Algeria has big oil reserves.
Word family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable