Near-synonyms: oil spot, oil slick
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Oilpatch
Synonyms for "oilpatch" (2 found)
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Polish
1 entries- przemysł petrochemiczny noun (oil-and-gas industry)
Russian
2 entries- нефтепро́м noun (oil-and-gas industry)
- нефтяна́я промы́шленность noun (oil-and-gas industry)
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This minority establishes itself at the most vulnerable zone of the national territory, and then slowly spreads like an oilpatch, propagating itself in concentric ripples through the peasant masses, to the smaller towns, and finally to the capital.
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Like many men of that era and region, he wandered into the oilpatch and worked as a roustabout for a while.
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"Texas Oil Patch Songs": [...] Willet [...] sings a dozen of his own songs having to do with oil workers [...]
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