# tanker
## English
### Etymology

From tank +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtæŋkə(ɹ)/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)

### Noun

tanker (plural tankers)
* (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, 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.
* (automotive, US) A tank truck (tanker truck).
* (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:Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.
* (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.
* (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.
* (rail transport) A tank car.
* (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, […]
* (surfing slang) A longboard.
    I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.

#### Derived terms

* air tanker
* oil tanker
* supertanker
* tanker aircraft
* tanker boot
* tanker truck
* think-tanker

#### See also

* (military): crewman

### Verb

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)
* (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
* (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.

### Anagrams

* Kanter

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tankər/, [ˈtˢɑnɡ̊ɐ̯]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tanker c
* indefinite plural of tanke

### Etymology 2

From English tanker.

#### Noun

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)
* a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)

##### Synonyms

* tankskib

#### Verb

tanker
* present of tanke

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tanker.

### Pronunciation

* (Netherlands) IPA: /ˈtɛŋ.kər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tan‧ker
* Rhymes: -ɛŋkər

### Noun

tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)
* tank ship
    Synonym: tankschip

#### Derived terms

* gastanker
* mammoettanker
* olietanker

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tanker m (plural tankers)
* tanker (vessel)

### Further reading

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From English tanker.

#### Noun

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

##### Synonyms

* tankbåt, tankskip

##### Derived terms

* oljetanker

#### See also

* tankar (Nynorsk)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tanker m
* indefinite plural of tank
* indefinite plural of tanke

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

tanker
* present of tanke

### References

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tǎnker/
* Hyphenation: tan‧ker

### Noun

tànker m (Cyrillic spelling та̀нкер)
* tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tanker.

### Noun

tanker c
* (nautical) tanker
    Synonym: tankfartyg

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | tanker | tankers |
| singular | definite | tankern | tankerns |
| plural | indefinite | tankrar | tankrars |
| plural | definite | tankrarna | tankrarnas |

#### Derived terms

* gastanker
* jättetanker
* oljetanker
* supertanker
* tankerflotta

### Further reading

* tanker in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

### Anagrams

* nektar