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mispark en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + park.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To park badly or wrongly.
   • Parking the family car was always a traumatic event for my mother because, inevitably, just as she was about to exit the car, a vigilant local would tap on the window and describe to her the way in which she had misparked. 2010, Jodi O'Brien, The Production of Reality, page 457:
   • The traffic was nonexistent at that hour, and I was such a bundle of nerves that I didn't observe the parking rules and misparked the car while I went in to make the call. 1992, David Robinson Thompson, Sandra Thompson, Palm Beach: From the Other Side of the Lake, page 133:
   • Sea-Land is trying new and innovative ideas to increase its productivity through ideas like creating disincentives for truck operators to "mispark" containers in the terminal yard, preinspecting chassis so that truck operators can avoid the lines through the roadability check station, and other non-technical smart ideas. 1995, Richard B. Easley, C. Michael Walton, Applicability of the Technologies of Intelligent Transportation Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations at the Port of Houston's Intermodal Marine Container Terminal with Case Studies of Existing Systems, page 74:
   • Some developers suggest that a lease covenant spell out penalties for tenants whose employees mispark. 1958, CSA Super Markets - Volume 34, page 202:

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