petrol

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At the pumps in Jamaica petrol was about J$15 per litre.

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  1. noun Chiefly British Gasoline.

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  • Louise drives the car till the petrol is all gone. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
  • But those competitive juices - remarkable, in themselves, considering the afore-mentioned lack of "petrol" - began to stir, by his after-match confession, some 25 overs from possible Proteas survival for a brilliant (it would have been that) draw. —  News24
  • The crude oil product which has the biggest demand is petrol, which is made from the naphtha fraction. —  The British National Party
  • The police have claimed that Jabir named a petrol pump owned as the source from where 140 litres of petrol was bought by two men - Ranjit Singh Patel and Prabhat Singh Patel. —  IBN Top Headlines
  • In the United Kingdom, gasoline - sorry, "petrol" - costs $6 a gallon, thanks to enormous taxes, and the average car gets 37 miles per gallon. —  CEI -
 

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  1. French (essence de) pétrole, (essence of) petroleum, gasoline, from Old French petrole, petroleum, from Medieval Latin petrōleum; see petroleum.

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  1. from French pétrole, from Middle Latin petroleum: see petroleum.
 

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/pɛˈtroʊl/
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