PARKING METER Definition & Meaning

parking meter

noun

a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.

parking meter

noun

a timing device, usually coin-operated, that indicates how long a vehicle may be left parked

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Origin of parking meter¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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The fine was dismissed, Shoup said, “on the then-novel explanation that the minister had gone to get change for the parking meter.”

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Dismissing the claim, Deputy District Judge Nathan Smith said the contract between Excel and Mr Barton "was not concluded until he read the terms and conditions next to the parking meter".

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Other pieces of her work, like a giant parking meter, pill box and a concrete-stump-turned-enlarged-prescription-bottle, were created in her Skid Row art studio and have dotted L.A.’s urban landscape in the past.

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After he went to put money in the parking meter and actually came back, I was relieved.

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Newsom writes that he was eager to tell the president about the city’s exciting new tech initiatives, such as paying parking meters with cellphones.

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