parking attendant

English

Noun

parking attendant (plural parking attendants)

1. (US) A person employed (as by a parking facility, hotel, or restaurant) to park cars.

   Synonyms: parking lot attendant, valet

2. (UK) A person who issues tickets for parking violations.

   Synonyms: (British English) traffic warden, (pejorative) meter maid, parking enforcement officer (PEO), (Australia and New Zealand) parking inspector, (Australia and New Zealand) parking officer, civil enforcement office

Translations

valet — see valet

person who issues tickets for parking violations

• Dutch: parkeerwachter (nl) m
• Finnish: pysäköinninvalvoja
• Irish: giolla páirceála m, maor páirceála m
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• Italian: parcheggiatore (it) m, posteggiatore m
• Swedish: lapplisa (sv) c, parkeringsvakt (sv) c, trafikvakt c

See also

• car park
• parking fine
• parking garage
• parking lot
• parking meter

References

• Parking enforcement officer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “parking attendant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “parking attendant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.