The word "oiling" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of applying oil either to a machine or a surface, or the act of lubricating something. For example: "Their car was in need of oiling, so they took it to the mechanic."
Community health workers like Joyce who are seemingly indefatigable are oiling the cogs of weary health systems across Africa.
I remember with clarity the preparations for the journey – oiling the chain, strapping down our tent, fitting the road map into the laminated pocket on the front of the bike.
(Re podmazyvat' it is, indeed, also used for oiling machinery, but I heard it much more often in the bribery context in Moscow, perhaps because I didn't work in a machine shop).
GONE are the genteel days when a central bank's role in oiling financial markets was limited to providing short-term cash loans in exchange for slightly less liquid collateral.
The $50m donation will bring the Mariinsky Theatre to Washington for a summer season every year for the next decade.Many feel (though they won't say so in his hearing) that Mr Vilar is oiling his own ego when he demands a certain bowing and scraping for such gifts.
And it also raises questions about the role of financial intermediaries, such as investment banks and exchanges, that are keen to gain from oiling this process.Companies anywhere can be hit by fraud.
COLLATERAL acts as the financial equivalent of WD-40, oiling the cogs of global markets by providing lenders with some security in the event of a default.
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It advises government and companies, but also gets involved directly in deals, oiling the wheels of the Glencore commodity-trading megalith's takeover of Xstrata in 2013, for example.
