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petrogarchs

petrogarchs is the plural of petrogarch.

Meaning of petrogarch

Noun

petrogarch (plural petrogarchs)

  1. Someone who is part of a small group that controls the petroleum industry, and hence has power over lives and governments similar to the powers of an oligarch.
    • Why focus on gas in particular? Because gasoline is where the world’s petrogarchs have us by the short hairs.2012, J. Rauch, “Ban Gasoline”, in The Atlantic

Questions about petrogarchs

What is petrogarchs the plural of?
Petrogarchs is the plural of petrogarch.

Words near petrogarchs in the dictionary

  1. petrofictions
  2. petroform
  3. petroforms
  4. Petrogales
  5. petrogarch
  6. petrogarchs
  7. petrogeneses
  8. petrogenesis
  9. petrogenetic
  10. petrogenetically
  11. petrogenic

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