Usually means: Currency earned from exporting oil.
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  1. petrodollar: Merriam-Webster
  2. petrodollar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petrodollar: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Petrodollar, petrodollar: Wordnik
  5. petrodollar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. petrodollar: Wiktionary
  7. petrodollar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. petrodollar: Dictionary.com
  9. petrodollar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Petrodollar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. petrodollar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Petrodollar: Financial dictionary

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noun:  (oil industry, chiefly in the plural, also attributively) Money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil, often especially as considered among a national economy's principal revenue streams.

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