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petrodollars

petrodollars noun: money earned through the sale of petroleum. Also the plural of petrodollar.

Noun

petrodollars

  1. Money earned through the sale of petroleum.
    • The mid-east is awash in petrodollars that need to be invested.

Also used as

petrodollars is also the plural of petrodollar.

Questions about petrodollars

What does petrodollars mean?
Petrodollars means money earned through the sale of petroleum.
What part of speech is petrodollars?
Petrodollars is a noun.

Words near petrodollars in the dictionary

  1. petrocurrency
  2. petrodentine
  3. petrodiesel
  4. petrodiesels
  5. petrodollar
  6. petrodollars
  7. Petrodvorets
  8. petroeuro
  9. petroeuros
  10. petrofabric
  11. petrofabrics

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