Seven Sisters
English
Noun
Seven Sisters pl (plural only)
- (astronomy) The Pleiades.
- (business) A cartel of seven oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
- (education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.
See also
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Pleiades (Greek mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Seven Sisters (oil companies) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Seven Sisters (colleges) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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