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Plural of tanker

regular plural

The plural of tanker is tankers.

Forms of tanker

Singulartanker /ˈtæŋkə/
Pluraltankers
Countablecountable

Tankers in a sentence

  • The channel at Chan-chiang is being dredged to a depth of 50 feet enabling tankers of 70,000 tons to call.1976 March, JeNelle Matheson, Construction Equipment A Market Assessment for the People's Republic of China, U.S. Department of Commerce...
  • Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.
  • Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from…. From the entry waterbomber
  • Oil and liquefied natural gas tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz carry around 20% of the world’s supply.2026 March 20, Eleni Giokos, “The Strait of Hormuz is about more than just oil. It feeds 100 million people”, in CNN Business, archived…. From the entry Persian Gulf
  • "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."2009, James Wesley Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. From the entry crunchy

Meaning of tanker

  1. noun A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.
  2. noun A motor truck (lorry) with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles): a fuel tanker (lorry), petrol tanker, road tanker.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of tanker

Questions about the plural of tanker

What is the plural of tanker?
The plural of tanker is tankers.
Is tanker countable?
Tanker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tanker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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