(chiefly Australia, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore) Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.

Containing petroleum. / Pertaining to the mining of petroleum. / Characteristic of oil or petroleum.

Of or pertaining to petroleum

plural of petrol

Political corruption and exploitation financed by oil exports.

plural of petrolization

The treatment of water with kerosene in order to exterminate mosquitoes. / (business) Conversion of a country or region to a petroleum-based economy.

simple past tense and past participle of petrolize

(transitive) To treat (water) with kerosene in order to exterminate mosquitoes. / To convert into a petroleum-based economy.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of petrolize