Glossary
Parking Attendant Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential parking attendant terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key parking attendant vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in parking attendant training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Claim ticket
- Receipt for a car.
- Damage check
- Inspection before parking.
- Event parking
- Venue lot work.
- Gate arm
- Entry barrier.
- Key board
- Key storage.
- Liability
- Responsibility for damage.
- Lot map
- Parking layout.
- Overflow lot
- Extra parking.
- Pay station
- Self-pay machine.
- Runner
- Retrieves cars.
- Shift close
- End-of-shift count.
- Stacking
- Tight parking arrangement.
- Tip pool
- Shared tips.
- Valet
- Parks cars for guests.
- Validation
- Business-paid parking.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Parking Attendant practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Parking Attendant training.
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