motor pool
English
Noun
motor pool (plural motor pools)
- (US, military) A fleet of vehicles for use by a military installation; the department that maintains them
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., J. B. Lippincott & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
- A sound truck joined the vehicles on the dock, whose number was growing almost to a full-sized motor pool.
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:
- Head through the Motor Pool to get to the Ops Center.
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