carpool
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrpuːl/
- US
:
coche compartido
- To save gas money, I ran a grocery carpool for fellow students.
- carpool lane
- HOV and carpools
- commute by carpool
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- The Google Maps carpool pick up every time I I hate this one so much.
Examples
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During the school year, our carpool group makes it easier for parents to share the responsibility of dropping off kids.
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We're meeting here for the carpool today.
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If you have children, you can have a neighborhood carpool and switch with the other parents every day.
Blog text (32) -
We had arranged through a carpool service to meet in the parking lot of the convenience store.
Fiction book (2002) -
I take care of the kids, run carpool, pack lunches.
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The mothers had conferred, and four of them had volunteered to carpool.
Fiction book (2001) -
The PTA can also help with transportation barriers by developing carpools in which those with vehicles transport those without to school functions.
Academic text (2010) -
For more than two years, I shared a carpool with a Lutheran pastor who served a small Lutheran church in Perth Amboy.
Academic text (2014) -
Every morning, I join my neighbors for the carpool to work, making the drive more enjoyable.
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We organized a carpool to reduce the number of cars on the road and help the environment.
Synonyms
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2.7
A group of people who share car trips to save money and reduce traffic
Antonyms
How Organized
- US
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2.9
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carpool joins car and pool, and here pool means 'to put things together to share'. So a carpool is a shared plan where people use one car to travel together to work or school.