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oil field
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
oil field
(noun)
oil field
noun
plural
oil fields
oil field
noun
plural
oil fields
Britannica Dictionary definition of OIL FIELD
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an area where there is a lot of oil and where special equipment has been set up to remove it from the ground
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