fuel oil

English

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Noun

fuel oil (usually uncountable, plural fuel oils)

2. Any of various grades of oil used principally as fuel.

   Hypernyms: oil, fuel

   Hyponyms: diesel, heating oil, mazut, mazout, bunker oil, bunker fuel, bunker

   Coordinate terms: motor oil, engine oil < lubricating oil

   1. The heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil.

      Near-synonyms: bunker oil, bunker fuel, bunker (ellipsis)

Derived terms

• ANFO (“ammonium nitrate–fuel oil”)

References

• “fuel oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.