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Definition of Oil company
1. Noun. A company that sells oil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Company
Literary usage of Oil company
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Did they know about it, and did they accept that transfer, and if they accepted
that transfer and the oil company was released, the oil company would not be ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"He served as a director and continued his association with its management until
the property was sold to the Standard oil company. It was in Coalinga that ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"Commissioner of corporations and the standard oil company. Outlook. 88: 1-3. ...
How the Standard oil company does Its business. CM Keys. II. World's Work. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"Acme oil company, Pennsylvania. Atlantic Refining Company of ... Camden Consolidated
oil company. Elizabethport Acid Works. ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"It was further charged that some time after Martha Miller, the lessor, had become
of age, she had leased the property to the Alpha oil company for gas and ..."
6. Industrial Combinations and Trusts by William Harrison Spring Stevens (1913)
"To the Stockholders of the Standard oil company (of New Jersey): Obedience to
the final Decree in the case of the United States against the Standard Oil ..."
7. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"The Pennsylvania rock oil company had been organized in 1858, and had purchased
some 1200 acres of land extending over a large area near Oil Creek, ..."
8. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1902)
"... 1872 Northumberland Coal Company 1865 National oil company of New York 1879
North Carbondale Coal Company 1867 North American Petroleum Company, ..."