supertanker
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]supertanker (plural supertankers)
- An extremely large tanker ship.
- Hypernyms: oil tanker, tanker
Usage notes
[edit]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
[edit]extremely large tanker
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]supertanker m (plural supertankers)
Further reading
[edit]- “supertanker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.