单词 | big oil |
释义 | > as lemmasbig oil b. Originally U.S. Designating major multinational companies of a specified industry, considered collectively, as big agriculture, big oil, big tobacco, etc. Cf. big business n., big pharma n., big tech n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1963 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 11 Sept. 4/4 When Big Oil can't get what it wants in foreign countries, the State Department tries to get it for them. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 June xi. 1/1 We just couldn't compete with big agriculture. 2001 Wired July 117/1 In the tightly knit clubhouse of Big Energy before deregulation, Starr's blueprint for ‘virtual R&D’..made a perfect fit. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald 19 Aug. (Spectrum section) 15/1 This exposé of hypocrisy spares neither Big Tobacco nor clean, green activists. < as lemmas |
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