big oil

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Noun

big oil (uncountable)

  1. (business, derogatory) The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
    • 2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones‎:
      Eight years after Kyoto, Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power.

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