tank park en · NOUN
Etymology
1918, tank + park.
Meanings
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An area for parking or storage of military tanks.
Regimental headquarters and headquarters company are usually at or near the tank park.
1938, Paul Stanley Bond, Military Science and Tactics: A Text and Reference for the Reserve Officers, P.S. Bond Publishing, p. 623
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(metonymically) The tank inventory of a country or army.
In the carnage of that first summer the Red Army had lost its entire tank park of nearly twenty thousand.
1965, Alan Clark, Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45,, Harper Perennial, published 1985, →ISBN, page 189:
- A storage facility with tanks for petroleum, etc.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tank parks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |