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park·ing       [par-king] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the act of a person or thing that parks, esp. 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
7.of, pertaining to, used for, or engaged in parking, esp. of vehicles: parking regulations; a parking ticket; a parking space; a parking attendant.
[Origin: 1520–30; park + -ing1, -ing2]
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park       (pärk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An area of land set aside for public use, as:
    1. A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.
    2. A landscaped city square.
    3. A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.
    4. An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.
    5. The materiel kept in such an area.
  2. A broad, fairly level valley between mountain ranges: the high parks of the Rocky Mountains.
  3. A tract of land attached to a country house, especially when including extensive gardens, woods, pastures, or a game preserve.
  4. Sports A stadium or an enclosed playing field: a baseball park.
    1. An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.
    2. The materiel kept in such an area.
  6. An area in or near a town designed and usually zoned for a certain purpose: a commercial park.
  7. A position in an automatic transmission that disengages the gears and sets the brake so the vehicle cannot move: put the car in park and turned off the engine.

v.   parked, park·ing, parks

v.   tr.
  1. To put or leave (a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
  2. Aerospace To place (a spacecraft or satellite) in a usually temporary orbit.
  3. Informal To place or leave temporarily: parked the baby with neighbors; parking cash in a local bank account.
  4. To assemble (artillery or other equipment) in a military park.

v.   intr.
  1. To park a motor vehicle: pulled over and parked next to the curb.
  2. Slang To engage in kissing and caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.


[Middle English, game preserve, enclosed tract of land, from Old French parc, of Germanic origin.]

park'er n.
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park·ing       (pär'kĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act or practice of temporarily leaving a vehicle or maneuvering a vehicle into a certain location.
  2. Space in which to park vehicles or a vehicle: ample parking behind the building.
  3. Upper Midwest & Western U.S. The grass strip, often planted with shade trees, between a sidewalk and a street. Also called regionally boulevard, boulevard strip, grassplot, neutral ground, parking strip, parkway, terrace, tree belt, tree lawn.
  4. Slang Kissing or caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.

To the majority of Americans, the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street is called simply the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street. However, in some parts of the country, it has acquired specific names. In the Midwest and West, it is often called the parking or parkway, and in Washington State it is the parking strip, according to the survey conducted by the Dictionary of American Regional English. In the Upper Midwest, it is also known as the boulevard or boulevard strip; around the Great Lakes and in the Midwest, it is sometimes a terrace; around the Great Lakes and in especially northeastern Ohio, it is also called a tree lawn. In Massachusetts it is a tree belt; in the Atlantic states, sometimes a grassplot; and in Louisiana and Mississippi, neutral ground. Some of these words are also used for the grassy strip in the middle of a street or highway. See Note at neutral ground.
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parking

noun
1. space in which vehicles can be parked; "there is plenty of parking behind the store" 
2. the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily 

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Parking

A form of kiting shares that a brokerage commits by moving long positions in unrelated accounts to cover short positions that are improperly settled according to SEC regulations.

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When parking shares, brokerage firms are attempting to cover undeclared short positions left over from transactions whose stock was not delivered by the settlement date. Rather than performing a buy-in transaction, these firms collude with one another and, by delaying the settlement process, inflate the number of shares available for trade in the secondary market.

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See also: Clearing, Cover, Kiting, Pairing Off, Secondary Market, Settlement Date, Short Covering, Short Interest

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parking

  1. Placing idle funds in a safe, short-term investment while awaiting the availability of other investment opportunities. Many investors end up parking proceeds from a security sale in a money market account while searching for other securities to purchase.
  2. Transferring stock positions to another party so that true ownership of the stock will be hidden. For example, an investor involved in the takeover of a company may park securities of the company with other investors so that the management of the target company will not know the extent of the investor's stock ownership. Parking for this purpose is generally illegal.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott.
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