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gas field

noun

  1. a district yielding natural gas.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gas field1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Example Sentences

The first was the attack on a gas field in Algeria by an Islamist group, and subsequent kidnapping of dozens of foreign nationals.

In 1890 I became interested in the natural gas field at Greentown, Ind.

The largest unoccupied field to-day is the fuel gas field, and who should step in and supply this demand?

Next to the fuel gas field I think I can see another field nearly as extensive, and that is the coal oil field.

The strongest wells are often kept burning for months in order to advertise a new gas field.

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