motor pool
noun
: a group of motor vehicles centrally controlled (as by a governmental agency) and dispatched for use as needed
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Tanks and other resources can be seen in satellite imagery, and the motor pools full of old ones empty out as they get shipped to the battlefield and obliterated.
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Sugie Sugarman in 92 half-hour episodes of the CBS comedy about an Army con man, Sergeant Bilko, and his motor pool crew.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
And there's this as well: Mr. Obama is also expected to announce two other initiatives to reduce oil imports, an agreement between the Pentagon and the Agriculture Department to use more biofuels in military vehicles and the purchase of thousands of hybrid vehicles for the federal motor pool.
—Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
Simply head to the nearest military base and find the motor pool.
—Aaron Kiley, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Sugie Sugarman in 92 half-hour episodes of the CBS comedy about an Army con man, Sergeant Bilko, and his motor pool crew.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
And there's this as well: Mr. Obama is also expected to announce two other initiatives to reduce oil imports, an agreement between the Pentagon and the Agriculture Department to use more biofuels in military vehicles and the purchase of thousands of hybrid vehicles for the federal motor pool.
—Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
Simply head to the nearest military base and find the motor pool.
—Aaron Kiley, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
See All Example Sentences for motor pool
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“Motor pool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motor%20pool. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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