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OILFIELD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oilfield mean?
• OILFIELD (noun)
The noun OILFIELD has 1 sense:
1. a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells)
Familiarity information: OILFIELD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("oilfield" is a kind of...):
field (a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found)
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