parking meter
noun
: a coin-operated device which registers the purchase of parking time for a motor vehicle
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On this day in 1935: Park-O-Meter No. 1, the world’s first parking meter, designed and created by Carl C. Magee, was installed on the southeast corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City.
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 July 2025
The foursome said the city appears to be on solid legal ground in starting to charge users for credit card transactions, instead of covering those fees itself with its parking meter revenue.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
As part of a settlement with the company that controls Chicago’s parking meters, taxpayers will be footing the bill for the city to hire more enforcement agents to ticket motorists parking without paying the fee to do so.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
Instead of covering the fees charged by banks when people use credit cards at parking meters, the city will now force the drivers parking at those meters to begin paying those fees on a per-transaction basis.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 July 2025
The foursome said the city appears to be on solid legal ground in starting to charge users for credit card transactions, instead of covering those fees itself with its parking meter revenue.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
As part of a settlement with the company that controls Chicago’s parking meters, taxpayers will be footing the bill for the city to hire more enforcement agents to ticket motorists parking without paying the fee to do so.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
Instead of covering the fees charged by banks when people use credit cards at parking meters, the city will now force the drivers parking at those meters to begin paying those fees on a per-transaction basis.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
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“Parking meter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parking%20meter. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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