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tank park

tank park noun: an area for parking or storage of military tanks.

Noun

tank park (plural tank parks)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    laager
  2. (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
  3. A storage facility with tanks for petroleum, etc.
    Synonyms:
    tank farm

Synonyms of tank park

Forms of tank park

pluraltank parks

Origin of tank park

1918, tank + park.

Questions about tank park

What does tank park mean?
Tank park means an area for parking or storage of military tanks.
What part of speech is tank park?
Tank park is a noun.
What is the plural of tank park?
The plural of tank park is tank parks.

Words near tank park in the dictionary

  1. tank killers
  2. tank loaf
  3. tank loaves
  4. tank locomotive
  5. tank locomotives
  6. tank park
  7. tank parks
  8. tank sinker
  9. tank sinkers
  10. tank slapper
  11. tank slappers

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