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

The people filling up trucks, trains, planes and ships with jet fuel, diesel or fuel oil are ringing alarm bells.

From The Wall Street Journal

Thomas compared the situation to the fuel shocks of the 1970s, which helped advance the mass adoption of natural gas for heating instead of fuel oil and the doubling down of drilling for oil domestically.

From Salon

In a national broadcast on Friday, Díaz-Canel said that not having fuel enter Cuba for the past three months has led to the gradual decline of diesel and fuel oil reserves.

From BBC

One of the ships, a foreign tanker carrying Iraqi fuel oil, was ablaze in Iraqi waters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ships are fueled by bunker fuel, usually marine gasoil, heavy fuel oil or marine diesel.

From MarketWatch