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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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.
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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
The motor pool building is a separate building from the hospital facility where patients are cared for; Eleanor Slater Hospital is the state-run system for people with who need complex, long-term medical care.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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
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
The motor pool building is a separate building from the hospital facility where patients are cared for; Eleanor Slater Hospital is the state-run system for people with who need complex, long-term medical care.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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
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