What part of speech is petroleum?

Petroleum can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does petroleum mean?

Definitions

Noun

petroleum - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Examples of petroleum

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1. noun It is inevitable that most Iraqi Shiites will side with their Hizbullah coreligionists against Israel, and it seems likely that Iraqi Shiites will get rich enough from Iraqi petroleum sales in the future that they will be in a good position to bankroll Lebanese Shiite radicals.
2. noun If even a modicum of normality and security can be returned to Iraq, its citizens will be able to benefit from the country's petroleum reserves.
3. noun My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
4. noun My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000).
5. noun But my father's former Iraqi business partner remained in control of the republic of Iraq and its petroleum reserves.
6. noun My family is calling for your urgent assistance in funding the removal of the President of the Republic of Iraq and acquiring the petroleum assets of his country, as compensation for the costs of removing him from power.
7. noun The US energy secretary has announced that oil will be released from government petroleum reserves.
8. noun China's economy is exploding, hampered only by their great thirst for petroleum and natural gas to fuel their industry.
9. noun Add to this the economic threat posed by China, and the economic threat implicit in any substantial disruption of the distribution of Mideast petroleum to the globe.
10. noun The present world owes its convenient life to petroleum.
11. noun The ecologist warned us that petroleum was not merely a blessing but also a curse.
12. noun Products made from petroleum are vital to modern societies.
13. noun Petrochemicals are chemical products derived from petroleum.
14. noun Peak oil, an event based on Hubbert's theory, is the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline.
15. noun Petroleum extraction is in decline in 33 out of the 48 major suppliers of oil.
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noun
It is inevitable that most Iraqi Shiites will side with their Hizbullah coreligionists against Israel, and it seems likely that Iraqi Shiites will get rich enough from Iraqi petroleum sales in the future that they will be in a good position to bankroll Lebanese Shiite radicals.
If even a modicum of normality and security can be returned to Iraq, its citizens will be able to benefit from the country's petroleum reserves.
My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000).
But my father's former Iraqi business partner remained in control of the republic of Iraq and its petroleum reserves.
My family is calling for your urgent assistance in funding the removal of the President of the Republic of Iraq and acquiring the petroleum assets of his country, as compensation for the costs of removing him from power.
The US energy secretary has announced that oil will be released from government petroleum reserves.
China's economy is exploding, hampered only by their great thirst for petroleum and natural gas to fuel their industry.
Add to this the economic threat posed by China, and the economic threat implicit in any substantial disruption of the distribution of Mideast petroleum to the globe.
The present world owes its convenient life to petroleum.
The ecologist warned us that petroleum was not merely a blessing but also a curse.
Products made from petroleum are vital to modern societies.
Petrochemicals are chemical products derived from petroleum.
Peak oil, an event based on Hubbert's theory, is the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline.
Petroleum extraction is in decline in 33 out of the 48 major suppliers of oil.

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