motor pool

noun

: a group of motor vehicles centrally controlled (as by a governmental agency) and dispatched for use as needed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Globe reported in a separate incident this week that a worker was arrested and charged with keeping an AR-15 ghost gun in his locker in the motor pool building of the Zambarano campus in Burrillville. —

Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022 Additionally, there are 45,000 square feet of former motor pool, woodworking and metalworking buildings for mill and wardrobe. —

Peter Caranicas, Variety, 26 Oct. 2022 The officer told him to head over to the motor pool. —

Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2022 Kove, aka John Kreese, checked out the 5th Marine Expedition’s motor pool of armored vehicles, shouldered an assault rifle and hopped aboard a Humvee and a military vehicle equipped with a 50-caliber gun turret. —

Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022 Even before the United States entered World War II, Army brass knew there was a deficiency in the U.S. motor pool: Our trucks were too big for quick, stealthy movement. —

Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022 That is down from 44,289 motor pool trips and nearly 6.2 million miles in 2019. —

Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2022 No one was hurt, but Army motor pool car driver Pfc. —

Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021 Witnesses at the motor pool said Guillen did not arrive with the paperwork. —

Kelsey Bradshaw, USA TODAY, 7 July 2020 See More

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