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park⋅ing

  [par-king]
Use parking in a Sentence
–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 + -ing 1 , -ing 2
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park

  [pahrk]
–noun
1. an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
2. an enclosed area or a stadium used for sports: a baseball park.
3. a considerable extent of land forming the grounds of a country house.
4. British. a tract of land reserved for wild animals; game preserve.
5. Western U.S. a broad valley in a mountainous region.
6. a space where vehicles, esp. automobiles, may be assembled or stationed.
7. amusement park.
8. theme park.
9. any area set aside for public recreation.
10. Military.
a. the space occupied by the assembled guns, tanks, or vehicles of a military unit.
b. the assemblage so formed.
c. (formerly) the ammunition trains and reserve artillery of an army.
11. Automotive. a setting in an automatic transmission in which the transmission is in neutral and the brake is engaged.
–verb (used with object)
12. to place or leave (a vehicle) in a certain place for a period of time.
13. Informal. to put, leave, or settle: Park your coat on the chair. Park yourself over there for a moment.
14. to assemble (equipment or supplies) in a military park.
15. to enclose in or as in a park.
16. Informal. to invest (funds) in a stock, bond, etc., considered to be a safe investment with little chance of depreciation, as during a recession or an unstable economic period, or until one finds a more profitable investment.
17. Aerospace. to place (a satellite) in orbit.
–verb (used without object)
18. to park a car, bicycle, etc.
19. Informal. to engage in kissing and caressing in a parked car.
Origin:
1225–75; ME (n.) < OF parc enclosure < LL *parricus < WGmc *parruk (see paddock 1 )

Related forms:
parker, noun
parklike, adjective

parking strip

 
–noun
Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def. 2).
Also called parking.
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park   (pärk)   
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.
park·ing   (pär'kĭng)   
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
park

  1. in.
    to neckor to make love, especially in a parked car. : They still park, but they don't have a name for it anymore.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

park  (n.)
c.1260, "enclosed preserve for beasts of the chase," from O.Fr. parc, probably ult. from W.Gmc. *parruk "enclosed tract of land" (cf. O.E. pearruc, root of paddock (2), O.H.G. pfarrih "fencing about, enclosure," Ger. pferch "fold for sheep," Du. park). Internal evidence suggests the W.Gmc. word is pre-4c. and originally meant the fencing, not the place enclosed. Found also in M.L. parricus "enclosure, park" (8c.), which is likely the direct source of the O.Fr. word, as well as It. parco, Sp. parque, etc. Some claim the M.L. word as the source of the W.Gmc., but the reverse seems more likely. OED discounts notion of a Celtic origin. Welsh parc, Gael. pairc are from English. As a surname, Parker "keeper of a park" is attested in Eng. from c.1145. Meaning "enclosed lot in or near a town, for public recreation" is first attested 1663, originally in ref. to London; the sense evolution is via royal parks in the original, hunting sense being overrun by the growth of London and being opened to the public. Applied to sporting fields in Amer.Eng. from 1867. New York's Park Avenue as an adj. meaning "luxurious and fashionable" (1956) was preceded in the same sense by London's Park Lane (1880).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

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.

Investopedia Commentary

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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Financial Dictionary

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 by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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