oil crisis
noun
A crisis associated with the oil industry; specifically the world economic crisis of 1973–4 precipitated by large increases in crude oil prices, together with production cuts and export embargoes, by the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in American Journal of International Law.
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