Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense car pools, present participle car pooling, past tense, past participle car pooled
1. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work,or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
...the carpool lanes in LA.
2. verb
If a group of people car pool, they take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children toschool.
[mainly US, or Australian]
The government says fewer Americans are carpooling to work. [VERB]
carpoolinguncountable noun [also N n]
The State Government should encourage car pooling to cut the number of one-passengercars on the roads.
...an organized car-pooling system.
3. countable noun
A car pool is a number of cars that are owned by a company or organization for the use of itsemployees or members.
[business]
car pool in British English
(kɑː puːl)
noun
1.
an arrangement 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
We operate a car pool.
Transportation planners say getting more people to use car pools remains an essentialstrategy for dealing with growing traffic problems around the country.
2.
a number of cars that are owned by a company or organization for the use of its employees or members
It wasn't her regular car; she'd had to borrow another car from the municipal carpool.
verb(intransitive)
3. the US or Australian word for carshare
car pool in American English
US
an arrangement by a group to rotate the use of their cars, as for going to work
Examples of 'car pool' in a sentence
car pool
You'd definitely want to be in his car pool at work.
The Sun (2012)
But if two or more of you are on the same route, a car pool arrangement could leave you quids in.