Oilman

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who deals in oils; one who is engaged in the business of producing or of selling oil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.
  • noun. A person working in the petroleum industry, esp. an oil company executive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker or executive, or the owner of an oil well.
  • noun. A retailer who sells vegetable oils, and food preserved in oil
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  • noun. a person who owns or operates oil wells
  • noun. a worker who produces or sells petroleum
  • Word Usage
    "Who would have believed, just weeks ago, that America's most famous self-described "oilman," T. Boone Pickens, would be spending millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to convince Americans what had been obvious, but what had been denied by just about every other "oilman" in America: we can't drill our way out of our energy problems."
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