supertanker

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ tanker.

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Noun

supertanker (plural supertankers)

1. An extremely large tanker ship.

   Hypernyms: oil tanker, tanker

   • 2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 42:

     But the task is like trying to turn a super tanker round 180 degrees - it can't be done quickly.

Usage notes

According to Wikipedia, an oil tanker must have the deadweight of over 250,000 tons to qualify as supertanker. In oil carrying capacity this means about 2 million barrels.

Translations

extremely large tanker

• Afrikaans: supertenker
• Catalan: superpetrolier m
• Dutch: mammoettanker (nl) m
• Finnish: jättitankkeri
• French: superpétrolier (fr) m, supertanker (fr) m
• Galician: superpetroleiro (gl) m
• Italian: superpetroliera f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sarincîka (ku)

• Latin: superpetrolearia f
• Portuguese: superpetroleiro m
• Romanian: superpetrolier (ro) n, supertanc (ro) n
• Russian: суперта́нкер (ru) m (supertánker)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: суперта̀нкер m

  Roman: supertànker (sh) m

• Spanish: superpetrolero m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

supertanker m (plural supertankers)

1. supertanker

Further reading

• “supertanker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.