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Refining industry   /rəfˈaɪnɪŋ ˈɪndəstri/   Listen
Refining industry

noun
1.
An industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products.  Synonyms: oil business, oil industry.






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"Refining industry" Quotes from Famous Books



... which are dependent upon some single industry are almost wholly composed of recent immigrants. Gary, Indiana, built by the United States Steel Corporation, and Whiting, Indiana, established by the Standard Oil Company for its refining industry, are examples of new American towns of exotic populations. At a glass factory built in 1890 in the village of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, over ten thousand Belgians, French, Slavs, and Italians now labor. An example of lightning-like displacement of population is afforded by the ...
— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth



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