parking lot
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈpɑrkɪŋ lɑt/
- US
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estacionamiento
- After the concert, the crowd streamed out into the parking lot to find their vehicles.
- parking lot cars
- pull into a parking lot
- parking lot filled
Why are their parking lots so small?
- Why are their parking lots so small?
- I've been in the parking lot for an hour.
- And I sat there in the parking lot staring at the front door.
- Everybody's getting a trophy in a parking lot, right?
- And I get to the parking lot of the Holiday Inn.
- I prefer the Walmart parking lots to beaches and things like that.
- Me and my wife were driving in the parking lot of Starbucks in Brentwood.
- And those deaths occur in parking lots of stores.
- The SWAT team's in the bushes in this parking lot in Saint Lucie, Florida.
- But you guys, the Costco parking lot is madness.
- The narrow streets and parking lots were searched.
Examples
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And I get to the parking lot of the Holiday Inn.
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When the new owner drove into the parking lot, his was the only car there.
Academic text (2012) -
The car was found in a parking lot of a shopping center.
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We asked permission to use a church parking lot to shoot it from.
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And now looking at all these cars in this parking lot, these are employee cars.
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Mrs. Gilbert stood in the parking lot, enjoying a final few words with my mother.
Fiction book (1990) -
We then go park in this parking lot that's adjacent to the bank.
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I prefer the Walmart parking lots to beaches and things like that.
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A network of trails connected a parking lot and residential area to the lake through the BCRA.
Academic text (2008) -
While visiting the mall, I found a spot in the parking lot to leave my car.
Synonyms
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A place where cars or other vehicles can be left
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A place to leave a car while you go somewhere
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A place where people leave their cars for a short time
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1.0
A place where people leave cars or other vehicles
2
1.5
An area for leaving cars or other vehicles
How Big
- US
497
1.0
78
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meeting‑jargon meaning (‘a place/list to put topics aside temporarily’) is motivated by the literal sense of 'parking' (leaving something temporarily) and 'lot' (a place), so there is a clear metaphoric link that a learner could plausibly infer. However, this is a pragmatic, culture‑specific extension used in workplace discourse and functions as jargon, so its exact use is not fully predictable for an average B1 learner without exposure.
Etymology
Parking lot comes from the simple image of many cars parked together on one lot of land; picture rows of cars left for a while. That's why it means 'an area or building where vehicles can be parked temporarily'.