parking meter

noun

: a coin-operated device which registers the purchase of parking time for a motor vehicle

Examples of parking meter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In addition to a healthy contingent of federal firefighters, federal workers from the departments of agriculture, the interior, and others have a strong presence in the town, which has a lone blinking stop-and-go traffic light and no parking meters. —David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025

Royal Oak parking meters will be closed during the festival to avoid traffic and circling cars looking for spots. —Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025

City crews have begun placing stickers on parking meter signs to make drivers aware of the new hours and the new Sunday enforcement. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025

Sophisticated scammers physically overlay fake QR codes on legitimate signs, especially on payment kiosks, parking meters, and package labels. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for parking meter

• amphitheater
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• centimetre
• decimeter
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• gasometer
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