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  • noun Plural form of oilman.

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Examples

  • No sirree ... having the country run by ex-oilmen is not the problem, it’s instead an article printed in the New York Times.

    Think Progress » Dan Bartlett Caught In A Lie: ‘No One Ever Said The War Would Result In Cheaper Gas Prices’ 2006

  • At least with the oilmen, I knew what I was dealing with and they did not even try to hide that they were focused on power, control, profits and sexist, macho gun-toting racist everything.

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Green Energy Boys Not So Different Than the Good Ole Oil Boys Vivian Norris de Montaigu 2010

  • Of course, a few dozen of America's richest oilmen, bankers and business leaders have been anonymously pouring record amounts of campaign money into the GOP, targeting close races and underwriting continuous attack ads.

    Joe Peyronnin: Read Before Voting Joe Peyronnin 2010

  • Wall Street bankers, billionaire oilmen like the Koch brothers, and other big business special interests that are funding the Republican assault on labor and the middle class have way too much power already.

    Mike Lux: Bankers' Holiday Mike Lux 2011

  • Of course, a few dozen of America's richest oilmen, bankers and business leaders have been anonymously pouring record amounts of campaign money into the GOP, targeting close races and underwriting continuous attack ads.

    Joe Peyronnin: Read Before Voting Joe Peyronnin 2010

  • Hoteliers in Takoradi, the four square mile port town near the crude find, are scrambling to build new lodging for the influx of oilmen from Hess Corp. and Tullow Oil PLC who are handling offshore rigs.

    In an African Dynamo's Expansion, the Perils of Prosperity Drew Hinshaw 2011

  • Having moved from pariah to western friend, it was awash with new American oilmen making big bucks and contractors building the first western hotels.

    Letters: West's hypocrisy over Arab countries 2011

  • DeChristopher could not pay for the leases and his actions cost some angry oilmen hundreds of thousands of dollars in higher bids for other parcels.

    Activist gets 2 years prison for thwarting auction 2011

  • I had to travel around the world and talk to all sorts of people -- oilmen, warlords, politicians, economists, geologists, environmentalists, sheikhs, lobbyists, and roughnecks.

    News Junkies 2010

  • Of course, a few dozen of America's richest oilmen, bankers and business leaders have been anonymously pouring record amounts of campaign money into the GOP, targeting close races and underwriting continuous attack ads.

    Joe Peyronnin: Read Before Voting Joe Peyronnin 2010

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