tanker
(tæŋkəʳ )
Word forms: tankers
1. countable noun [oft by NOUN]
A tanker is a very large ship used for transporting large quantities of gas or liquid, especially oil.
An oil tanker has run aground.
2. countable noun [oft by NOUN]
A tanker is a large truck, railway vehicle, or aircraft used for transporting large quantities of a substance.
...an accident involving a petrol tanker on the M27, east of Southampton.
3.
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Collocations:
chemical tanker fuel tanker tanker carries tanker truck
I sit in traffic most mornings in my 44-ton chemical tanker surrounded by cars with just one person in - at least 20 to every truck.
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The chemical tanker was close to the accident and saved the two seafarers.
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In the 1930s the first tanker was built and in the 1950s they entered the chemical tanker trade.
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Since then, the business has expanded slowly, but steadily and has expanded into chemical tanker transport.
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Rate per ton arrangements are used mostly in chemical tanker chartering, and differ from lump sum rates in that port costs and voyage expenses are generally paid by the charterer.
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It consisted of two obsolete jet engines mounted on a bogie fitted to the front of a fuel tanker.
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His red fuel tanker can carry up to 4,400 gallons of paraffin.
The Sun
They also recovered 30,000 litres of contaminated fuel and seized a fuel tanker, pumps and filtration equipment.
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Fuel tanker drivers are expected to call for strike action tomorrow as pump prices reach record highs and motoring groups threaten protests against sharp increases in fuel taxes.
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Fuel tanker drivers are to vote on a deal aimed at averting strikes, with a recommendation to reject it, keeping alive the threat of industrial action.
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Aircraft flying over a motorway had to be diverted after a tanker carrying propane gas burst into flames.
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A tanker carrying liquid petroleum gas was reported to have reached the port of Benghazi yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The company said that the tanker was carrying about 275,000 metric tonnes of crude.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The driver of a tanker carrying chemicals managed to avoid the accident.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The tanker carried 230,000 tons of fuel oil.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A second tanker truck has been sent to the scene to transfer the liquid cargo.
Houston Chronicle
He drives a tanker truck and spends hours on the road.
The Sun
His family's station wagon was in a collision with a tanker truck.
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Fuel for these generators was stored on site and was delivered by tanker truck, though in the past it was delivered directly by ship.
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As a result of the low water pressure, firefighters began taking a one thousand gallon tanker truck with them when they went on calls.
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Translations:
Chinese: 油轮
Japanese: タンカー