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REFINING INDUSTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products
Synonyms:
oil business; oil industry; refining industry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("refining industry" is a kind of...):
industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)
Meronyms (members of "refining industry"):
oil company (a company that sells oil)
pipeline company (a company that operates oil pipelines for the oil industry)
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