tanker
Americannoun
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tankers
plural
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a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
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a tank trailer or tank truck.
verb (used with object)
noun
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Origin of tanker
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The artificial-intelligence giants that carry your fund now trade on the same headlines as a burning oil tanker off the coast of Oman.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The disruption was due to delays in distribution after a tanker had trouble discharging its cargo, Simon Aloysius Mantiri, president director of state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina, said Tuesday along with an apology.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Inefficient trade flows of oil from the Middle East have led to a significant surge in tanker freight rates, which will likely keep product prices elevated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
People in her village, Bakau Serip, were now depending on tanker trucks that dispensed "dirty, cloudy and smelly" water, she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
But attacks over the past week appear to have targeted both containerships and tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
UK Maritime Trade Operations said four tankers were struck in the waterway on October 11, which Bloomberg said was around double the average the agency had seen the week before.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Back in March, the U.S. said it would temporarily allow Russia to sell oil that had already been loaded onto tankers at sea.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
The department deployed numerous fire engines, bulldozers, four helicopters, two air tankers and two “super scooper” aircrafts, Katon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The U.S. customs office was kept busy inspecting oil tankers from the Middle East which supplied crude oil to the refinery at Hess Oil.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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