| 单词 | big oil | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig oil  b.  Originally U.S. Designating major multinational companies of a specified industry, considered collectively, as  big agriculture,  big oil,  big tobacco, etc. Cf. big business n.,  big pharma n.,  big tech n. at  Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1963    Post-Standard 		(Syracuse, N.Y.)	 11 Sept. 4/4  				When Big Oil can't get what it wants in foreign countries, the State Department tries to get it for them. 1982    N.Y. Times 		(Nexis)	 20 June  xi. 1/1  				We just couldn't compete with big agriculture. 2001    Wired July 117/1  				In the tightly knit clubhouse of Big Energy before deregulation, Starr's blueprint for ‘virtual R&D’..made a perfect fit. 2006    Sydney Morning Herald 19 Aug. (Spectrum section) 15/1  				This exposé of hypocrisy spares neither Big Tobacco nor clean, green activists. < as lemmas  | 
	
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