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ˈoildom
[f. oil n.1 + -dom.]
The petroleum-producing districts of a country; petroleum producers and marketers regarded as a group.
1865J. H. A. Bone Petroleum & Petroleum Wells 42 If he would see anything at all of oildom he must make the passage, unpleasant as it may be. 1880Harper's Mag. Dec. 63 Huge shops..send..iron tanks into the oil regions—to hold the surplus of Oildom. 1904I. M. Tarbell Hist. Standard Oil Co. I. 71 The rise [in freight rates] which had been threatening had come... At the news all oildom rushed into the streets. 1926J. Ise U.S. Oil Policy xiii. 135 The new order immediately precipitated a fresh quarrel in oildom. |