WordNet
n. a powerful person in the oil business
Usage examples of "oil tycoon".
The sanitary napkin manufacturer, the soup company, or the oil tycoon who thinks his idiot son should be a publisher.
The president is not perfect, but he sees enough in the oil tycoon to know he's as rotten as a ninety-day-old truckload of fruit.
The extraction and refining operation is being supervised by Quentin Underwood, the secretary of the interior and would-be oil tycoon.
In the first few years, only some 150-200 barrels a day are expected, and that's definitely not going to impress a Texas oil tycoon.
Lord Dusterman, the munitions magnate, was on his right, Ahmet Ben Khali, oil tycoon of the Orient, to the left.
When he was a teenager, he had crossed the ocean working on a yacht for some international oil tycoon.
The three-story edifice, donated to the city years ago by the heirs of a long-dead oil tycoon, was twelve thousand square feet of English Tudor with big lawns, a pool, and a tennis court.