oil baron
Crude wealth king
An oil baron is a powerful businessperson who has amassed great wealth from the petroleum industry.
The term evokes the industrial tycoons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—figures like John D.
Rockefeller—though it applies to modern magnates as well.
Baron here suggests quasi-aristocratic power derived from controlling a vital resource: The Texas oil barons shaped state politics for decades.
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- gusherOil well that erupts
refinery · Rockefeller · mansion · wealth · pipeline · crude · Texas · Gulf Coast · drilling · fortune · monopoly · industry · empire · riches · black gold · wells · mogul · Chevron
- barons
- business mogulstycoon, mogul, magnate, billionaire, titan
- Business Titanstycoon, mogul, magnate, industrialist, billionaire
- Business TycoonsAndrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- fat catstycoon, mogul, magnate, plutocrat, oligarch
- baron words
oil baronpauper
Person in extreme poverty
beggar · homeless person · wage slave · the poor · have-not
oil baronroughneck
Oil platform laborer
refinery worker · factory worker · blue-collar worker · day laborer · employee
oil, baron, oils, oiled, oiling, oily, oiliness, oilier, oiliest