supertanker
[ soo-per-tang-ker ]
noun
a tanker with a deadweight capacity of over 75,000 tons.
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How to use supertanker in a sentence
Also, it was uncertain whether there was much of a market for gas that would be piped 229 miles through Oregon to supertankers docked at a high-tech facility in the fishing town of Coos Bay.
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British Dictionary definitions for supertanker
supertanker
/ (ˈsuːpəˌtæŋkə) /
noun
a large fast tanker of more than 275 000 tons capacity
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