A carpool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. A carpool also refers to the people traveling together in a car.
His wife stays home to drive the children to school in the carpool.
2. countable noun
A carpool is a number of cars that are owned by a company or organization for the use of its employees or members.
[business]
3. intransitive verb
If a group of people carpool, 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.
carpool in British English
(ˈkɑːˌpuːl)
verb, noun
another term for carshare
Derived forms
carpooling (ˈcarˌpooling)
noun
carpool in American English
(ˈkɑrˌpul)
verb intransitive, verb transitive
to participate in or transport by participating in a car pool
: also ˈcar-ˌpool
In other languages
carpool
British English: carpool 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.
His wife stays home to drive the children to school in the car pool.
American English: carpool
Brazilian Portuguese: transporte solidário
Chinese: 拼车
European Spanish: acuerdo entre un grupo de personas que se turnan para coger el coche en el traslado al lugar de trabajo o para llevar a los niños al colegio
French: système de covoiturageN
German: Fahrgemeinschaft
Italian: car pool
Japanese: 車の相乗り
Korean: 카풀
European Portuguese: transporte partilhado
Latin American Spanish: acuerdo entre un grupo de personas que se turnan para coger el coche en el traslado al lugar de trabajo o para llevar a los niños al colegio