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单词 petro-power
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petro-power
Forming terms relating to petroleum, esp. with reference to the political and economic power of oil-producing countries, as petropolitics, petro-power, petro-resources, petro-wealth. Also: forming terms designating revenue, esp. foreign exchange, that derives from petroleum exports, as petrobillion, petro-naira, petropound. See also petrocurrency n., petrodollar n., and cf. petrochemistry n.2
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1973 Time 3 Dec. 44/1 The energy crisis..may have been artificially imposed, but its implications stretch far beyond petropolitics.
1974 Newsweek 7 Oct. 52/3 Top Arab leaders have now decided not to put their petrobillions into U.S. Treasury bonds..but to invest in American industry instead.
1975 Publishers Weekly 19 May 99/1 I understand they're rolling in petropounds since oil was discovered in the North Sea.
1976 Publishers Weekly 5 Jan. 60/1 An Arab emirate saturated with petro-resources.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 5 May 7/1 As the tenth largest oil producer in the league, Nigeria has every reason to tout her petro-wealth.
1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 June 35/1 ‘There are two kinds of power,’ he said, ‘petropower and agripower.’
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 20 July 7/1 Nigeria's foreign exchange reserve zoomed to N2,047 million through oil boom, thus projecting an over-sized petro-naira bubble which beclouded the vision of some former military rulers.
1977 Time 11 July 36/3 The Saudis can be expected to wield their petropower prudently.
1993 Washington Post (National Weekly ed.) 19 Apr. 22/1 It had found new oil reserves..across the country from the huge fields along the Persian Gulf that made the desert kingdom a petro-power.
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