petrodollar

petrodollar

See also: pétrodollar

English

WOTD – 14 September 2021

Etymology

From petro- (prefix meaning ‘petroleum; oil export’) +‎ dollar, possibly modelled after Eurodollar.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtɹə(ʊ)ˌdɒlə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtɹoʊˌdɑlɚ/
• Hyphenation: pe‧tro‧dol‧lar

Noun

petrodollar (plural petrodollars)

1. (oil industry, chiefly in the plural, also attributively) Money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil, often especially as considered among a national economy's principal revenue streams.

Coordinate terms

• agridollars
• ecodollars
• narcodollars

Related terms

• petrocurrency
• petroeuro
• petromoney
• petropound

Translations

money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil

Armenian: նավթադոլար (hy) (navtʿadolar) Dutch: petrodollar m Finnish: öljyraha French: pétrodollar (fr) m Italian: petrodollaro (it) m, petroldollaro m German: Petrodollar (de) m Greek: πετροδολάριο (el) n (petrodolário) Polish: petrodolar m Portuguese: petrodólar (pt) m Romanian: petrodolar (ro) n Russian: нефтедо́ллар (ru) (neftedóllar) Spanish: petrodólar m Swedish: oljedollar c Ukrainian: нафтодо́лар m (naftodólar)

References

1. “petrodollar, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2005; “petrodollar, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English petrodollar. Equivalent to petro- +‎ dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.troːˌdɔ.lɑr/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pe‧tro‧dol‧lar

Noun

petrodollar m (plural petrodollars)

1. petrodollar (dollar earned from oil sales)