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car park

American  

noun

Chiefly British.
car parks plural
  1. a parking lot.


car park British  

noun

  1. Usual US and Canadian term: parking lot.  an area or building reserved for parking cars

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of car park

First recorded in 1930–35

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The buckets are gathered back in the car park and the crop is carefully placed in a barrel of cool seawater to be taken for processing.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Many took refuge in the Thurrock service station car park, but were then unable to get back out.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Unverified images from the scene of one of the warehouse strikes showed flames and huge plumes of black smoke rising from a vast logistics building, with dozens of workers fleeing into a car park area.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

He said nobody else went behind a wall in the car park until Wilkins' body was found there the next morning by police.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

These are the pictures I’ve kept of those moments we waited by that car park.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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