motor pool

noun

A fleet of vehicles for use by a military installation; the department that maintains them

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Meanings

nounmotor pool (plural motor pools)

plural motor pools

  1. USgovernmentA fleet of vehicles for use by a military installation; the department that maintains them

    Head through the Motor Pool to get to the Ops Center.

    2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest
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    A sound truck joined the vehicles on the dock, whose number was growing almost to a full-sized motor pool.

    1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., J. B. Lippincott & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31
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