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noun

parking n.

The act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily.

A space or spaces in which a vehicle can be parked; as, there is plenty of parking behind the store.

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Etymology of 'Parking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Parking" Quotes from Famous Books

... taxi-drivers had long since deserted their posts. The parking space on Cypress Street, opposite the main entrance of the station—a space usually crowded with commercial cars—was deserted. No private cars were there, either. Spike seemed alone in the drear December night, his car an exotic of the ...

— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen

... starship took up a parking orbit around the capital planet of Acquataine Cluster. The ...

— The Dueling Machine • Benjamin William Bova

... by the War, State, and Navy Building he noted the lights burning in widely separated office rooms and smiled grimly to himself. Parking the car near the Whitney residence, he made his way to the front door. Miss Kiametia Grey answered his impatient ring ...

— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... fathers, hampered in days gone by with lack of municipal funds, had left the two-hundred-acre square of the park pretty much as nature made it; that is to say, there was no ornate parking, no attempt at landscape gardening. Ancient maples spread their crooked arms untrimmed, standing in haphazard groves. Wherever the greensward nourished, there grew pink-tipped daisies and kindred flowers of the wild. It was gutted in the middle with ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

Words linked to "Parking" : parking lot, parking brake, parking space, parking area, parking zone, valet parking, parking meter, elbow room, tactical manoeuvre, maneuver, no-parking zone, way, park, manoeuvre, room