salad-oil

Noun

salad oil (countable and uncountable, plural salad oils)

1. Any oil used in or as a salad dressing.
2. An edible vegetable oil other than olive oil, as corn oil or sesame oil
3. (US, industrial) An edible vegetable oil that is winterized so that it remains liquid at cold temperatures. It is characterized by its light flavor, color, and mouthfeel, which make it ideal for industrial food applications such as the production of mayonnaise. (after 1962, usually): partially hydrogenated refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) soybean oil for industrial food manufacturing.
   • An entrepreneur named Anthony DeAngelis rented petroleum tanks in New Jersey and filled them with seawater, with the exception of just one smaller tank, nested inside a larger tank, which he filled with salad oil.2006 May 5, Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak, Mona M. Clayton, Jessica S. Pill, A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation, Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 221