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Fuel oil   /fjˈuəl ɔɪl/   Listen
Fuel oil

noun
1.
A petroleum product used for fuel.  Synonym: heating oil.






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"Fuel oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... ago, when the fuel oil industry was first projected, it was cried down because, as its enemies claimed, there was not enough oil fuel to be obtained in America to supply the New York City factories alone, to say nothing of other territory, and because of the high prices ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... in a house leaked heat and let in cold. Besides, in an era when windows closed tightly with the first cold blasts of fall and remained so until spring, such ventilation was probably a life saver. But at the present high prices for either coal or fuel oil, these points about the house where heat is lost and winter cold crashes the ...
— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley



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