parking lot

noun
an area, usually divided into individual spaces, intended for parking motor vehicles.

Origin:
1920–25, Americanism

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parking lot
 
n
(US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): car park an area or building reserved for parking cars

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Parking lot is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
Example sentences
For a long time the area was paved in asphalt and used as a parking lot.
Land usage for nuclear is often overlooked, while solar rooftop or parking lot
  solar need not take up any new land.
They parked their car a third of the way up the block, beside a parking lot
  enclosed by a chainlink fence.
There were only a handful of cars in the parking lot, so he asked if people
  were traveling.
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