Usually means: Enhanced oil recovery using water.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterflood: Merriam-Webster
  2. waterflood: Collins English Dictionary
  3. waterflood: Wordnik
  4. waterflood: Wiktionary
  5. waterflood: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Waterflood, waterflood: Dictionary.com
  7. Waterflood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. waterflood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Waterflood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. waterflood: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Waterflood: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (waterflood)

noun:  An inundation of water.
verb:  To pump water into the ground around an oil well nearing depletion in order to loosen and force out additional oil.

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