synfuel

[ sin-fyoo-uhl ]

noun

1. synthetic fuel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of synfuel¹

An Americanism dating back to 1970–75; syn(thetic) + fuel

Example Sentences

Dating to the 1980s, Arthur J. Gallagher has sought out opportunities, for example, in subsidized low-income housing and the so-called synfuel tax credit, designed to promote domestically-produced synthetic fuels that can reduce U.S. import dependence.

From Reuters

This facility was paid for initially by the US Department of Energy as a synfuel plant under President Jimmy Carter's Energy Independence Program.

From Nature

Bureau of Mines briefly experimented with processing synfuel at a plant in the early 1950s using techniques brought back from Europe by U.S. scientists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because of Exxon's synfuel program, our fields, orchards and beautiful mountains were being forfeited to accommodate the influx of people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her timing was bad: others rushed into chemical engineering just when the synfuel and plastics industries were cutting back.

From Time Magazine Archive