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 operation comes after Royal Marine Commandos boarded a Russian "shadow fleet" oil tanker in the English Channel in June.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Oil prices edged down but remain in danger of spiking further as investors await a breakthrough in efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
“What’s remarkable is how similar tanker trackers’ numbers are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"This was very alarming," said Sanket Joshi, 40, a veteran Indian tanker captain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
For a full minute the tanker passed—so close, he thought, so close he could see the rivets in her hull and the water pumping out of exhaust holes on her side.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
They said more tankers have been leaving the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf with transponders turned off — known as “dark crossings” — with satellite coverage limited and ship-to-ship transfers increasing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Between five and ten of these big crude oil tankers" are on the move every day, loaded with around 100,000 cubic metres of crude oil each, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Tehran still has millions of barrels of oil stored offshore in oil tankers, mainly in the waters off Malaysia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In response, local authorities started dispensing fuel straight from road tankers which keep changing their location to minimise the chances of being hit.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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