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  • noun Plural form of flotel.

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Examples

  • To accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP and several subcontractors have set up floating hotels, or "flotels," made up of steel boxes resembling oversized shipping containers and stacked atop barges.

    'Flotels' Await Oil Spill Cleanup Workers On Gulf 2010

  • The "flotels" will cost about $200,000 a day to operate, the British energy company says.

    BP Builds 'Responders Village' for Cleanup Crews 2010

  • To accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the spill, BP and several subcontractors have set up floating hotels, or "flotels," made up of steel boxes resembling oversized shipping containers and stacked atop barges.

    BLACK ENTERPRISE 2010

  • Asylum seekers may be held in 'flotels' ASYLUM-seekers could be housed on floating hotels instead of being transferred to the Australian mainland as the steady stream of refugee boats threatens to overwhelm the Christmas Island detention centre, the Opposition has suggested.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Asylum seekers may be held in 'flotels' floating hotels instead of being transferred to the Australian mainland as the steady stream of boats threatens to overwhelm the Christmas ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Italy immigrant names son Silvio Berlusconi 2010

  • "flotels," made up of steel boxes resembling oversized shipping containers and stacked atop barges.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2010

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