fuel oil

American  

noun

1. an oil used for fuel, especially one used as a substitute for coal, as crude petroleum.

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fuel oil British  

noun

1. a liquid petroleum product having a flash point above 37.8°C: used as a substitute for coal in industrial furnaces, domestic heaters, ships, and locomotives

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Example Sentences

At least one tanker has left Venezuela since that ship, the Skipper, was confiscated, but it was carrying fuel oil, not the more valuable crude.

From The Wall Street Journal

Likewise, the Germans regarded their Italian allies during World War II largely as a burden with whom they had to share scarce supplies such as fuel oil.

From The Wall Street Journal

After stints at two trading firms, he struck out on his own in the mid-1990s with a venture selling Russian fuel oil from Estonia.

From The Wall Street Journal

Forest Service tested large-scale incineration of jungles by igniting barrels of fuel oil dropped from planes.

From Salon

The leak involves heavy M100-grade fuel oil that solidifies at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius.

From BBC