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 Words From

• un·parking adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of parking¹

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

Example Sentences

More than 700 restaurants have applied for a temporary streatery permit, which allows restaurants to expand seating during the coronavirus pandemic by placing tables in nearby alleys, sidewalks and parking lanes.

From Washington Post

Metro won’t charge parking fees at the Addison Road station during the shutdown.

From Washington Post

“It seems that if you want to improve the game-day experience, you would first look at ticket prices, parking and food — not dismantling a popular and successful cheerleading program,” Banks said.

From Washington Post

“It’s like the Hunger Games,” Eileen Robbins said from her car in a parking lot filled with National Guard members.

From Washington Post

One garage offered parking for the “Health Care Heroes” the NFL invited to the game.

From Washington Post

The kid moved again, slowly across the parking lot to the garbage bin.

From The Daily Beast

Nearby, Loescher added, parking lots are a great place to see the onslaught.

From The Daily Beast

In August, an 18-year-old was shot and killed by a Dallas police officer after a car crash in a parking lot near a Walmart store.

From The Daily Beast

They finally arrived in a dark, empty parking lot in the middle of the night, despite her repeated protests.

From The Daily Beast

Then one day he saw another Pacer in the parking lot of a chicken joint.

From The Daily Beast

Delancy turned the sedan through the door of the big garage, rolled across the wide parking floor to the cement ramp at the rear.

From Project Gutenberg

Then headed for the car parked down beyond the "No Parking" zone directly in front of the bank.

From Project Gutenberg

Penny, however, had left her car in the snowy parking lot, which was convenient to the river.

From Project Gutenberg

On the snow-banked parking lot where the car had been left, there now stood only one vehicle, an unpainted, two-wheel trailer.

From Project Gutenberg

The car came within a stone's throw of the factory, where it turned into a parking lot.

From Project Gutenberg

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