oilman

noun

oil·man ˈȯi(-ə)l-mən

-ˌman

: an oil company executive

: an oil field worker

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Alan Todd May was now, in the vaguest possible sense, an oilman. —

Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024 Lyman Stewart: Fundamentalist and Oligarch American oilman Lyman Stewart embodied the uniquely American paradoxes of what would become capitalist Christian fundamentalism and the prosperity gospel. —

JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 At a testy breakfast on May 19, 1981, Richard Richards, chair of the Republican National Committee, confronted a who’s who from the right, ranging from Dolan, Weyrich, and Schlafly to the billionaire oilman and John Birch Society member Bunker Hunt. —

Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made By History, TIME, 10 June 2024 Autry Stephens, Endeavor’s octogenarian founder, will become America’s richest oilman once the deal closes. —

Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for oilman