fuel oil

noun

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

fuel oil

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

Example Sentences

Venezuela recently sent its third shipment of fuel oil to Syria.

From The Daily Beast

We request everybody outside of the disaster area to refrain from hoarding gasoline, light diesel, and heavy fuel oil.

From The Daily Beast

Fuel oil, gasoline, lubricating oil—for these three essentials are there no practical substitutes or other adequate sources?

From Project Gutenberg

Fuel oil can be largely supplanted by coal, but for the internal-combustion engine there is no quantitative substitute.

From Project Gutenberg

A fuel-oil truck disappeared from the street outside of Dabney Brothers' and was found abandoned in the morning.

From Project Gutenberg

Fuel oil for the engines, and even lubricating oil, could be sent from the tender to the submarine in a very simple manner.

From Project Gutenberg

Another feature is harmonizing the fuel oil and the lubricating oil so that one will not counteract the effects of the other.

From Project Gutenberg