diesel fuel

noun

: a heavy mineral oil used as fuel in diesel engines

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The train derailed near Seneca Avenue in Niagara, New York around 8:30 a.m. Monday, CSX said, with the crash damaging a residential garage and spilling diesel fuel. Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024 For those reasons, other strategic stocks of all kinds will become more important—not just those that hold oil but also ones that hold natural gas and oil products such as diesel fuel and gasoline. Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023 In addition, businesses whose products and services incur high costs on governments and infrastructure–think excise taxes on diesel fuel and tires for trucking—also rightly pay more. Eileen McCarron, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024 One important way to do that is to raise the price of gasoline and diesel fuel. Jeffrey Ball, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018 See all Example Sentences for diesel fuel 

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of diesel fuel was in 1949

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“Diesel fuel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diesel%20fuel. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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