also: バーレル
barrel; barrel as a unit of volume
A unit of volume, especially familiar in contexts such as oil prices and production figures. It is a unit noun used after numbers, as in 1バレル or 一日あたり何万バレル.
Crude oil prices briefly exceeded 80 dollars per barrel.
That oil field produces about fifty thousand barrels a day.
This oil field produces one hundred thousand barrels of crude oil per day.
The price of crude oil rose to eighty dollars per barrel.
Common katakana spelling for the volume unit; this is the higher-priority form.
Long-vowel variant given; also used for the same unit.
Katakana term for the volume unit 'barrel'; no borrowing language or detailed etymology is specified.