tank park

English

Etymology

1918, tank +‎ park.

Noun

tank park (plural tank parks)

1. An area for parking or storage of military tanks.
   • 1938, Paul Stanley Bond, Military Science and Tactics: A Text and Reference for the Reserve Officers, P.S. Bond Publishing, p. 623:

     Regimental headquarters and headquarters company are usually at or near the tank park.

2. (military, metonymically) The tank inventory of a country or army.
   • 1965, Alan Clark, Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45,, Harper Perennial, published 1985, →ISBN, page 189:

     In the carnage of that first summer the Red Army had lost its entire tank park of nearly twenty thousand.

3. A storage facility with tanks for petroleum, etc.

Quotations

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Synonyms

• (parking area): laager
• (fuel storage): tank farm

Related terms

• artillery park
• car park