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  • noun Plural form of refinery.

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Examples

  • While the oil tanker drivers were working, the main refineries were also targeted and the tanker drivers let the strikers know where they were going, allowing for flying pickets to turn them back at their destination.

    'Life on Mars' for real Not a sheep 2008

  • While the oil tanker drivers were working, the main refineries were also targeted and the tanker drivers let the strikers know where they were going, allowing for flying pickets to turn them back at their destination.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Andrews had been a day laborer in refineries, and so poor that his wife took in sewing.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • Andrews had been a day laborer in refineries, and so poor that his wife took in sewing.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • Andrews had been a day laborer in refineries, and so poor that his wife took in sewing.

    Markets and Morals 2006

  • I think the whole reason the oil companies want new refineries is because fixing older units would take their money while they will probably get handouts and subsidies to open new ones.

    Think Progress » Bowing to Public Pressure, House Conservatives Back Crackdown on Gas Price Gouging 2006

  • Commuting to work at the port and refineries is a small price to pay to avoid drowning.

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: But in the case of Iranian crude that gets refined overseas, we think a very, very small amount of it ever comes into the U.S. market because most of the Iranian crude gets refined in Asian refineries or in European refineries, and is actually consumed there.

    Background Briefing On Sanctions On Iran ITY National Archives 1995

  • Some of it, like the money spent on pipe lines and refineries, is not necessarily of a recurring nature; but it is surprising how many "nonrecurring" items do, in fact recur time and again.

    Frontiers of the Future 1953

  • PARIS-French drivers rushed to fill their tanks Sunday after striking workers at petrol shortages as families hit the road for the mid-term refineries spread Tuesday to facilities owned by ExxonMobil Corp., raising the pressure on Total SA and the petrol shortages, pushing their demands as families hit the road for mid-term refineries spread Tuesday to facilities owned by ExxonMobil Corp.

    WN.com - Articles related to Health bill means pain and gain for businesses 2010

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