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carpool

[ kahr-pool ]

noun

  1. Also carpooling, 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.


verb (used without object)

  1. Also car-pool. to form or participate in a carpool.

carpool

/ ˈɑːˌː /

verb

  1. another term for carshare
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Derived Forms

  • ˈˌǴDZԲ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of carpool1

First recorded in 1940–45; car 1 + pool 2
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Kardos was part of a carpool group with other families that took turns making the commute.

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A SigAlert was issued for the westbound 60 between Ramona Boulevard and east of Garey Avenue, and the carpool lane and two other lanes were closed, according to a CHP spokesperson.

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He was sitting in the carpool lane at Michael’s school, when he says it hit him like an epiphany.

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The Kern County raid seemed to target the food markets and parking lots where farmworkers are known to gather in the morning for carpooling, said Bakersfield immigration attorney Ana Alicia Huerta.

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An SUV was reportedly driving 60 to 70 mph northbound in the southbound carpool lanes of the freeway near Getty Center Drive just after 4 a.m.

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