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Oilman   Listen
noun
Oilman  n.  (pl. oilmen)  
1.
One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.
2.
A person working in the petroleum industry, esp. an oil company executive.





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"Oilman" Quotes from Famous Books



... discreet, and found the debate on the White gentility had been resumed. Ivinghoe was philosophically declaring 'that in these days one must take up with everybody, so it did not matter if one was a little more of a cad than another; he himself was fag at Eton to a fellow whose father was an oilman, and who wasn't half ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Oilman" :   rigger, oil rigger, wildcatter, man of affairs, businessman, trained worker


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