parking

[par-king]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that parks, especially a vehicle.

2. space in which to park vehicles, as at a place of business or a public event.

   There's plenty of free parking at the stadium.

3. permission to park vehicles.

   Is there parking on this side of the street?

4. the activity or occupation of a person who operates or works in a parking lot, garage, or the like.

5. parking strip.

6. Informal.,  the act of kissing and caressing in a parked car.

   Some of the couples went parking on their way home from the dance.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, used for, or engaged in parking, especially of vehicles.

   parking regulations; a parking ticket; a parking space; a parking attendant.

Other Word Forms

• unparking adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of parking¹

First recorded in 1520–30; park + -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Beutner, on his video, also turns his aim at City Hall, high housing costs, rising parking meter rates and a big increase in trash pickup fees for homeowners and smaller apartment buildings.

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Orlean, who is so carefully attentive to her responsibilities that we interrupted our interview so she could feed her parking meter, made headlines in 2020 for tweeting with no filter.

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Crowding has become a testy issue around Vermont, where small towns have taken aim at intrusive leaf-peeping visitors by shutting down scenic roads and ramping up parking enforcement—even towing vehicles.

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I don’t like paying for parking, and I used to own a parking company.

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"It's like looking at cars in a parking lot," Betley says.

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