Usually means: Paved surface for roads, runways.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarmac: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tarmac, tarmac, the tarmac: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tarmac, the tarmac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tarmac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tarmac, the tarmac: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tarmac: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tarmac, tarmac: Wordnik
  8. tarmac, the tarmac: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tarmac: Wiktionary
  10. tarmac: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Tarmac: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Tarmac: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tarmac: Dictionary.com
  14. tarmac: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tarmac: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tarmac (company), Tarmac (disambiguation), Tarmac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. tarmac: Rhymezone
  18. Tarmac: Britih-American Dictionary
  19. tarmac: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tarmac: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Tarmac: The Word Detective
  22. tarmac: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarmac: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TARMAC: Acronym Finder
  2. tarmac: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarmac: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarmac: Chapters in the Sky

(Note: See tarmacing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Tarmacadam.
noun:  (loosely, UK, Ireland, Canada) Any bituminous road surfacing material.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Canada) The driveable surface of a road.
noun:  (informal, aviation) The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver.
verb:  (British, Canada) To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material.
verb:  (aviation) To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.

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