tank park

noun

An area for parking or storage of military tanks.

Meanings

nountank park (plural tank parks)

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. metonymicallygovernmentThe 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 & antonyms

nounAn area for parking or storage of military tanks.

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nounA storage facility with tanks for petroleum, etc.

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