carshare

British  

/ ˈkɑːˌʃɛə /

verb

1. (intr) to take turns in driving fellow commuters to and from work or friends' children to school and back, so as to avoid the unnecessary use of several underoccupied vehicles

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noun

1. a group of people who carshare together

Other Word Forms

• carsharing noun

Example Sentences

Ithaca Carshare in upstate New York, which has operated for 15 years with 30 cars and 1,500 members, recently went on hiatus after the two remaining private insurers of car sharing left the New York market.

From New York Times

Evie Carshare debuted last year, subsidized by $7 million in federal grants, $4 million from Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy Inc. and funding from both cities.

From New York Times

“Hi can you please forward a message since two of us are trying to get a carshare from germany to ukraine going,” reads a Feb. 26 message forwarded to a popular neo-Nazi Web channel.

From Washington Post

Carshare startup Getaround plans to lay off roughly 150 employees, according to a recent report by The Information.

From Salon

She was so enthused by the experience — “I love driving these cars, they’re very quiet,” she said — that she became an official representative of the program, Our Community CarShare.

From New York Times