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Meaning of "petropounds" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PETROPOUNDS

petropounds  [ˈpɛtrəʊˌpaʊndz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PETROPOUNDS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Petropounds is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PETROPOUNDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of petropounds in the English dictionary

The definition of petropounds in the dictionary is the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PETROPOUNDS


bands
bændz
Bonds
bɒndz
bounds
baʊndz
diamonds
ˈdaɪəməndz
ends
ɛndz
funds
fʌndz
grounds
ˈɡraʊndz
hands
hændz
hounds
haʊndz
Islands
ˈaɪləndz
lands
lændz
Netherlands
ˈnɛðələndz
seconds
ˈsekəndz
showgrounds
ˈʃəʊˌɡraʊndz
sounds
saʊndz
surrounds
səˈraʊndz
swounds
zwaʊndz
thousands
ˈθaʊzəndz
weekends
ˌwiːkˈɛndz
zounds
zaʊndz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PETROPOUNDS

petrolic
petroliferous
petrologic
petrological
petrologically
petrologies
petrologist
petrology
petromoney
petronel
Petronella
Petronius
Petropavlovsk
petrophysical
petrophysicist
petrophysics
petrosal
Petrosian
petrostate
petrous

WORDS THAT END LIKE PETROPOUNDS

Barren Grounds
beat the bounds
Bury St Edmunds
by leaps and bounds
Cahokia Mounds
coffee grounds
electronic transfer of funds
feeding grounds
go the rounds
hare and hounds
lick one´s wounds
managed funds
master of foxhounds
master of hounds
out of bounds
ride to hounds
rub salt into someone´s wounds
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
the hounds

Synonyms and antonyms of petropounds in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «petropounds» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PETROPOUNDS

Find out the translation of petropounds to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of petropounds from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «petropounds» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

petropounds
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

petropounds
570 millions of speakers

English

petropounds
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

petropounds
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

petropounds
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

petropounds
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

petropounds
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

petropounds
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

petropounds
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Petrograf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

petropounds
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

petropounds
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

petropounds
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Petropoda
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

petropounds
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

petropounds
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पादत्राणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

petropounds
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

petropounds
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

petropounds
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

petropounds
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

petropounds
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

petropounds
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

petropounds
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

petropounds
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

petropounds
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of petropounds

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PETROPOUNDS»

The term «petropounds» is barely ever used and occupies the 211.381 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of petropounds
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about petropounds

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETROPOUNDS»

Discover the use of petropounds in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to petropounds and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Why Care about Israel?: How the Jewish Nation Is Key to ...
British policy shifted specifically to appease Arab fears for the sake of petrodollars, or, in this case, petropounds. As you know, Great Britain's Empire is no more. Likewise, Germany was left in shambles, a nation divided and humiliated after its ...
Sandra Teplinsky, 2004
2
Intellectuals and Other Traitors
It is time for the United States to align its monetary policies with those of the other industrial nations. Compart- mentalization of petrodollars (and petrofrancs, petropounds, petromarks, petro- yen, etc.) will give the oil producing nations a stake ...
Bernard Edward Brown, 1980
3
The Economist
Petropounds have made Aberdeen one of the most prosperous towns in the country, and expensive oil means more tax revenues. Oil and gas last year overtook banking as the biggest payer of corporate tax, contributing £7.8 billion ( $15.6 ...
‎2008
4
Publishers Weekly
I understand they're rolling in petropounds since oil was discovered in the North Sea, swimming in kilt-edged bonds." He will publish expurgated glosses on his misadventures, in ephemeral public prints, and ultimately collect them into a book  ...
‎1975
5
International Currency Review
The Eurosterling banks would be able to buy these assets to enable them to offer higher interest rates on Eurosterling deposits. And finally, there would be a good chance of attracting back the petropounds to shore up the currency, that have ...
‎1975
6
International relations in the twentieth century: a reader
These deposits became the basis for a major expansion of the international lending activities of private banks, helping to 'recycle', at a price, the petrodollars, petropounds, petromarks, and so on.5 The United States had been the largest ...
Marc Williams, 1989
7
Time
Rather than declare financial war against the West, the Arabs are trying to solve a vexing problem: how to use those petrodollars, pet- rofrancs, petromarks, petropounds and petroyen to expand their own undernourished economies. Because ...
Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, 1973
8
Worldwide Hotel Industry
London will benefit from becoming an even more important financial center than during the last decade, perhaps as a result of the need to recycle "petropounds." Jonathan Bodlender Managing Director S. Medlik Director Horwath & Horwath ...
‎1979
9
Annual Report on International Hotel Operations
... "petropounds." Jonathan Bodlender Managing Director S. Medlik Director Horwath & Horwath (U.K) Ltd. London Latin America General Comments The comments for Latin America were compiled by Eliberto J. Gracia, senior principal, and ...
‎1979
10
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Rlvlsta Internazionale dl Sclenze Economiche e Commerciali 21:940-53 O '74 World economv: A crisis out of control? by Walter Eltis: Petropounds and sterling's vestigial reserve currency function; Oil and indebtedness, table chart lnternat ...
‎1974

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PETROPOUNDS»

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Margaret Thatcher: A Flawed Legacy
BP was, after all, the state-owned creation of Winston Churchill and kept a constant flow of petropounds going into the Treasury. Selling it off to ... «World Policy Institute, Apr 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Petropounds [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/petropounds>. May 2024 ».
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