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oil opera

oil opera noun: an amoral drama focusing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a business person fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.

Noun

oil opera (plural oil operas)

  1. (rare) An amoral drama focusing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a business person fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.
    • The oil operas pretty much do away with questions of social conscience. There are no moral values as such, only instrumental values which either work or don't work in advancing one to still greater heights of wealth and corporate power.1992, Michael Parenti, “Affluent Class and Corporate Brass”, in Make-Believe Media, St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 100

Forms of oil opera

pluraloil operas

Questions about oil opera

What does oil opera mean?
Oil opera means an amoral drama focusing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a business person fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.
What part of speech is oil opera?
Oil opera is a noun.
What is the plural of oil opera?
The plural of oil opera is oil operas.

Words near oil opera in the dictionary

  1. oil of turpentine
  2. oil of vitriol
  3. oil of wine
  4. oil of wintergreen
  5. oil olive
  6. oil opera
  7. oil operas
  8. oil paint
  9. oil painting
  10. oil paintings
  11. oil paints

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