Usually means: Vessel for transporting bulk liquids.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanker: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tanker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tanker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tanker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tanker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tanker, tanker: Wordnik
  7. tanker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tanker: Wiktionary
  9. tanker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tanker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tanker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tanker: Dictionary.com
  13. tanker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tanker (aircraft), Tanker (ship), Tanker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. tanker: Rhymezone
  16. tanker: Free Dictionary
  17. tanker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. tanker: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tanker (ship), tanker: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tanker: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tanker, tanker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Tanker, Tanker: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (nautical) A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
noun:  (automotive, US) A tank truck (tanker truck).
noun:  (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
noun:  (rail transport) A tank car.
noun:  (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
noun:  (surfing slang) A longboard.
verb:  (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
verb:  (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.

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