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Five Sisters

Five Sisters proper noun: the five American oil companies, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of New York, Texaco, and Gulf Oil, which were the first to obtain oil concessions in the Middle East.

Proper noun

Five Sisters

  1. The five American oil companies, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of New York, Texaco, and Gulf Oil, which were the first to obtain oil concessions in the Middle East.

Questions about Five Sisters

What does Five Sisters mean?
Five Sisters means the five American oil companies, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of New York, Texaco, and Gulf Oil, which were the first to obtain oil concessions in the Middle East.
What part of speech is Five Sisters?
Five Sisters is a proper noun.

Words near Five Sisters in the dictionary

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  2. Five Poisons
  3. Five Power Defence Arrangements
  4. Five Precepts
  5. five senses
  6. Five Sisters
  7. five sixths
  8. five stones
  9. five thousand
  10. five tool player
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