Meaning & use
tarmac
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A hard-surfaced area, especially a road or airport runway, made of tar-bound aggregate.
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The planes lined up on the tarmac waiting for clearance to take off.
Workers resurfaced the parking lot with fresh tarmac.
A note on using this word
Tarmac is originally a trademarked material name that became a generic term, and it is especially common in British English for describing airport surfaces.
Words with a similar meaning
asphaltpavement
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