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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The petroleum and natural gas industry.
- noun An oil-producing region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A geographical region from which petroleum is extracted.
- noun The petroleum producing industry.
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