Definitions

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  • noun a ship converted to a permanently moored hotel.
  • noun living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.

Etymologies

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Blend of float and hotel

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Examples

  • This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

    Home 2010

  • This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

  • This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

    Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com 2010

  • Former ADN reporter Charles Wohlforth recounts his surprise at coming upon a luxuriant "flotel" for pipeline workers in a remote stretch of wild Prince William Sound.

    News on Anchorage Press 2009

  • Former ADN reporter Charles Wohlforth recounts his surprise at coming upon a luxuriant "flotel" for pipeline workers in a remote stretch of wild Prince William Sound.

    News on Anchorage Press 2009

  • At Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf, a flotel there is the only way to station workers in a massive shipyard surrounded by ecologically sensitive marshes and beaches.

    'Flotels' Await Oil Spill Cleanup Workers On Gulf 2010

  • On Monday afternoon, the living quarters on the flotel sat empty.

    'Flotels' Await Oil Spill Cleanup Workers On Gulf 2010

  • Another flotel sits about 15 miles away, off Grand Isle, and BP plans to establish them elsewhere along the coast.

    'Flotels' Await Oil Spill Cleanup Workers On Gulf 2010

  • On Monday afternoon, the living quarters on the flotel sat empty.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

  • Another flotel sits about 15 miles away, off Grand Isle, and BP plans to establish them elsewhere along the coast.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

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