think tank
tank
verb[ I ]
 informaluk /tæŋk/us
to suddenly begin to have serious problems, especially by falling a lot in price, value, etc.:
The state was expecting an increase in tax revenues, but that was before the economy tanked.
Car exports in the year to April tanked 23%.

Examples of tank

tank
Two different designs have been developed for the two types of ponds: sea cages and tanks.
Each replicate line was maintained in large (51i31 cm) tanks containing 60 snails of matched compatibility selection status, with no intervention on mating strategy incorporated.
To accommodate the flensing deck and blubber cookers a superstructure was added above the oil tanks.
The fuel farm consists of ten 55,000 l tanks on an elevated concrete pad.
Unused tanks of petroleum, materials containing asbestos, chemicals for experimentation, and thousands of other items were left behind.
Selected non-state actors are also represented, among them think tanks, business organisations, multinational corporations and the media.
In fact, conversion of old tanks into percolation tanks is more effective as far as the impact on groundwater is concerned.
Plants were submerged for 12 d in the tanks.
After 10 d of submergence, the plants were removed from the tanks and returned to standard irrigated conditions.
The fluid motion in the stirred tanks used in laboratories and in industry is usually turbulent.
Males and females were isolated in unisexual tanks in the laboratory, and fed frozen crickets ad libitum.
Collectors were provided with hermetic tanks to store samples in 10% formaldehyde.
The fish were obtained from a local fish dealer and kept in 100 liter tanks at room temperature with a 12012 h light0dark regime.
714 obtained commercially and kept in laboratory tanks until use.
The uv-cones were not taken into consideration because of the low emission of the monitor in this spectral range and the use of glass tanks.
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Collocations withtank

tank

These are words often used in combination with tank.

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bulk tank
Bulktank milk samples were examined for campylobacter using the enrichment procedure.
buoyancy tank
The unusual configuration of the bow buoyancy tank creates a generous amount of stowage space under the foredeck for paddles, buckets, fishing gear, etc.
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