Meaning

2 senses

  1. A patch or puddle of oil.

    Near-synonyms: oil spot, oil slick

  2. (informal)An oil and gas producing region; (metonymic) the oil and gas industry.

    Like many men of that era and region, he wandered into the oilpatch and worked as a roustabout for a while.

    нефтяна́я промы́шленностьneftjanája promýšlennostʹ, нефтепро́мneftepróm

Translations

2 languages
Русский
oil-and-gas industry:

Origin

From oil + patch.

From oil + patch.

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Forms

plural: oilpatches

Synonyms

2 synonyms
oil spotoil slick

Word family

6 related words
RelatedoilyB1oileroil platformoil rigroughneckroustabout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ohohmoilA2oilyB1oink

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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