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Definition of Supertankers
1. supertanker [n] - See also: supertanker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supertankers
Literary usage of Supertankers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by John M. Collins (2000)
"... savings that naval ships (excluding large aircraft carriers and supertankers
... to rely increasingly on fast supertankers that took other routes, ..."
2. State of the Nation: South Africa 20052006 by Sakhela Buhlungu (2006)
"A new dry-dock facility for oil supertankers is also being built at Saldanha.
When operational, this will be the only dry dock for oil supertankers between ..."
3. The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil by Robert W. Tolf (1976)
"With half-million-ton tankers now plying the oceans and million-ton monsters on
the drawing boards there is a whole new vocabulary: supertankers, ..."
4. Africa South of the Sahara: The Challenge to Western Security by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1981)
"... made in containerization, a process that adds to the size of cargo ships and
presents them with problems similar to those faced by supertankers. ..."
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