tank park
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tank park (plural tank parks)
- 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.
- 1938, Paul Stanley Bond, Military Science and Tactics: A Text and Reference for the Reserve Officers, P.S. Bond Publishing, p. 623:
- (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.
- A storage facility with tanks for petroleum, etc.
Quotations edit
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