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supermajors

supermajors is the plural of supermajor.

Meaning of supermajor

Noun

supermajor (plural supermajors)

  1. Any of the world's largest privately owned oil and gas companies.
    • Mr. Freeman prefers smaller yet still diversified companies with stronger growth profiles than the supermajors, like Apache, which has interests in natural gas as well as oil, and Occidental Petroleum, which produces oil, gas and chemicals. […] “The supermajors are still a great place to be because...2008 June 7, Conrad De Aenlle, “Big Oil Is Owed Some Love”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
  2. A very large soldier ant, bigger than a major.
    Synonyms:
    supersoldier

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Questions about supermajors

What is supermajors the plural of?
Supermajors is the plural of supermajor.

Words near supermajors in the dictionary

  1. supermajor
  2. supermajoritarian
  3. supermajoritarianism
  4. supermajorities
  5. supermajority
  6. supermajors
  7. supermale
  8. supermales
  9. supermall
  10. supermalls
  11. superman

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