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carpool

[kahr-pool]
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noun Also car pool.
  1. Also car·pool·ing, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
  2. those included in such an arrangement.
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verb (used without object)
  1. Also car-pool. to form or participate in a carpool.
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Origin of carpool

First recorded in 1940–45; car1 + pool2
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Historical Examples

  • Most of those which had been rented for the day had been returned to the car-pool garages.

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    Dallas McCord Reynolds

British Dictionary definitions for car-pool

carpool

verb, noun
  1. another term for carshare
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Derived Formscarpooling, noun
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Word Origin and History for car-pool

n.

also carpool, 1942, American English, from car + pool (n.2). As a verb from 1962. Related: Carpooled; carpooling.

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