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oil tanker

noun

  1. a large ship specifically designed for transporting crude oil in bulk across the oceans.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of oil tanker1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

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An oil tanker and cargo ship that crashed in the North Sea did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions", an interim report has found.

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More than 200,000 barrels of jet fuel are to be removed from the oil tanker involved in a crash with a cargo ship in the North Sea.

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A cargo ship involved in a crash with an oil tanker in the North Sea has been towed to Aberdeen.

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She’s pulled over by police officers, who are then called away by an overturned oil tanker down the road.

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In both cases, the fenders absorbed and deflected the energy, but the 2007 collision, with an oil tanker, damaged the fenders and the ship, causing it to spill more than 53,000 gallons of oil.

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