tanker

From tank +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæŋkə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)

tanker (plural tankers)

2. (nautical) A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.

   Hyponyms: oil tanker, supertanker

   • 1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China‎^[1], U.S. Department of Commerce, →OCLC, page 8:

     The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.

4. (automotive, US) A motor truck with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles).

   Synonyms: tanker truck, tank truck

   Coordinate terms: tank car, tank wagon

5. (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
   • 2021 September 23, Larry Elliott, “Petrol disruption will fuel fears of new winter of discontent”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.

6. (aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.

   Synonyms: air tanker, tanker aircraft

   Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.

   • 2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 bombers, and multiple flight trackers on social media said the planes being refueled were B-2 bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

7. (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.

   While our ground teams cut firebreaks in the brush, the tankers kept the fire in the mountains at bay with frequent drops of water and retardant.

8. (rail transport) A tank car.
9. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.

   Synonyms: tankist (uncommon), zipperhead (Canadian military slang)

   Hypernyms: crewmember, trooper

   Hyponym: tankman

   • 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:

     On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]

10. (surfing slang) A longboard.

    I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.

• (military): crewman

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)

1. (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
2. (aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.

• Kanter

• IPA^(key): /tankər/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ɐ̯]

tanker c

1. indefinite plural of tanke

From English tanker.

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)

• tankskib

tanker

1. present of tanke

Borrowed from English tanker.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋ.kər/

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• Hyphenation: tan‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkər

tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)

1. tank ship

   Synonym: tankschip

• gastanker
• mammoettanker
• olietanker

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tanker m (plural tankers)

1. tanker (vessel)

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

From English tanker.

tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. (nautical) a tanker

• tankbåt, tankskip

• oljetanker

• tankar (Nynorsk)

tanker m

1. indefinite plural of tank
2. indefinite plural of tanke

tanker

1. present of tanke

• “tanker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tanker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /tǎnker/
• Hyphenation: tan‧ker

tànker m inan (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)

1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Borrowed from English tanker.

tanker c

1. (nautical) tanker

   Synonym: tankfartyg

• gastanker
• jättetanker
• oljetanker
• supertanker
• tankerflotta

• tanker in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

• nektar