oilpatchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

oilpatch (複数形 oilpatches)

1. A patch or puddle of oil.
   • 2002, Martin Legassick, Armed Struggle and Democracy: The Case of South Africa (page 24)

     This minority establishes itself at the most vulnerable zone of the national territory, and then slowly spreads like an oilpatch, propagating itself in concentric ripples through the peasant masses, to the smaller towns, and finally to the capital.

2. (informal) The oil and gas industry.
   • 1959, The Billboard, 16 Nov 1959, page 50

     "Texas Oil Patch Songs": [...] Willet [...] sings a dozen of his own songs having to do with oil workers [...]

   • 2005, Martin S. Raymond, William L. Leffler, Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language

     Fracturing the formation in the lingo of the oil patch is to perform a frac job.

   • 2008, Edmonton Sun, February 26, 2008

     "Alberta won't plug oilpatch"