oil worker
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2.0
- noun
- /ɔɪl ˈwɜrkər/
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trabajador del petróleo
- The life of an oil worker often involves long hours and challenging conditions.
- oil workers were kidnapped
- Texas oil workers
- foreign oil workers
Examples
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The vast majority of skilled oil workers still travel by air from Quito, live in an oil camp fenced off from the town, work nine-day shifts, and return home to the Sierra between work assignments.
Academic text (2000) -
Rows of trailers used as housing for oil workers are seen in this aerial photo in Williston, North Dakota, in this picture taken May 17, 2012.
Blog text (17) -
American troops guard the oil fields... ...as Texas oil workers assess their potential.
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They said they were oil workers in Alaska.
Fiction book (2001) -
She studied and lived with oil workers in Louisiana.
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"There are stories from Williston, North Dakota oil workers that are as hard to believe as they are entirely true."
Blog text (30) -
Despite the fact that remunerations in the oil sector are far above average wages in other sectors, oil workers have continued to be strike-prone.
Academic text (1994) -
Williston nightclubs have added security measures to deal with the influx of oil workers.
Blog text (22) -
Later, oil workers in Trinidad and bauxite workers in Jamaica came to occupy other strategic vantage points within the Caribbean labor movement.
Academic text (1998) -
Strikes by Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil workers paralyze oil production.
Blog text (1)
Synonyms
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5.3
A worker who runs the machine that makes holes for oil or gas
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4.6
A man who works in or owns part of the oil business
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6.9
A worker who does heavy physical work on oil rigs or construction sites
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9.9
A person who drills for oil in places not known to have oil
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7.5
A person who works on an oil rig handling drilling equipment
A woman who works in the oil industry
A person who works on an oil platform to get or process oil
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who works in the production, extraction, or sale of petroleum' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oil' (the domain/industry) with 'worker' (a person who works). This noun+noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Oil worker comes from the simple image of a person who works with oil on a rig or at a plant, and the word worker means someone who does a job. So, oil worker means 'a person who helps take or process oil from the ground'.