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.
- well-hewn
- well-hinged
- well-hoarded
- well hole
- well hook
- well-horned
- well-horsed
- well house
- well-housed
- well-hued
- well-humored
- well-humoured
- well hung
- well-husbanded
- well, I declare
- wellie
- well I'll be (or I'm) damned
- well, I'll be (or I'm) jiggered
- head someone/thing off
- headspace
- head spade
- Head's paradoxical reflex
- head-spinning
- head-splitting
- headspring