parking meter

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   a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space; depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time

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Questions about parking meter

What does parking meter mean?

parking meter means "a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space; depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time".

Is parking meter a common word?

parking meter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.