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Meaning of Oilman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker or executive, or the owner of an oil well.
  2. A retailer who sells vegetable oils, and food preserved in oil

Equivalents

العربية تاجر النفط
हिन्दी तेली
Polski olejarski

Examples

“If the wife buys fish or vegetables in the street, as is generally done, she will, at the same time, buy her piece of bacon or cheese at the cheesemonger’s, her small quantity of tea and sugar at the grocer’s, her fire-wood at the oilman’s, or her pound of beef or liver at the butcher’s.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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