单词	petrodollar
释义	petrodollar noun pet·​ro·​dol·​lar ˈpe-trō-ˌdä-lər  : a dollar's worth of foreign exchange obtained by a petroleum-exporting country through sales abroad —usually used in plural Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The loss of petrodollars and the blow to sentiment have also hit non-oil GDP, where an expansion of almost 5% in 2017 turned into a contraction of more than 4% in each of the last two years. Ziad Daoud, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020 In the belief that democracy in one Arab state is a threat to all, regimes flush with petrodollars have cracked down mercilessly on political activity and media. Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2020 Propped up by a windfall of petrodollars, the Kremlin has little incentive to rescue small companies. Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020 That threatened the future of the U.S. shale industry, the stability of oil-dependent states and squeezed the flow of petrodollars through an ailing global economy. Fortune, 13 Apr. 2020 That threatened the future of the US shale industry and the stability of oil-dependent states and squeezed the flow of petrodollars through an ailing global economy. Grant Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2020 Almost all international trades in oil are priced in dollars, hence the term petrodollars. Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019 Firstly, at the time of its conception, the Nigerian government had a large amount of petrodollars. Astrid R.n. Haas, Quartz Africa, 1 Nov. 2019 But to imagine such consistency from our new green magnates would mean that Al Gore would never have sold his failed cable network to the anti-Semitic Al-Jazeera, funded by polluting petrodollars. Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019 See More Word History Etymology petro- + dollar First Known Use 1973, in the meaning defined above
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