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- noun Plural form of
tanker .
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Examples
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The attitude of oil tankers is similar to that of the entire political world, brushing “accidents” under the rug and hiding evidence, although the evidence in this case is hard to hide.
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Grenada overlooked the entry port for a long, narrow corridor through the Caribbean reefs followed by our oil tankers from the Middle East and was outside the range of fighters based on the continental US.
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010
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However, chartering endless strings of railroad tankers is not very economical.
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With additional mills perhaps we could run one line to Churchill and convey it in tankers to Moosonee, the head of steel, on James Bay, and thence to refineries in Toronto, for eastern distribution.
The Alaska Highway and Post-War Reconstruction and Rehabilitation 1942
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To one crowd, it’s clearly more “environmentally friendly” to burn local wood for local people rather than transport oil in tankers or build giant gas pipelines from Siberia.
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The country’s fleet of tankers is geared toward transporting this oil to the Gulf of Mexico, and can’t be reversioned for longer hauls.
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The country’s fleet of tankers is geared toward transporting this oil to the Gulf of Mexico, and can’t be reversioned for longer hauls.
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The tankers are the one aircraft the military cannot go to war without.
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But the owners of the tankers are the owners of the tankers and they are the final arbiters of what happens there.
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The world's biggest owner of liquefied natural gas tankers, which is based in Malaysia, had hired Citigroup and Deutsche Bank to sell $750m of 10-year US dollar bonds and had initially set price guidance on Monday.
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