CAR POOL


Meaning of CAR POOL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kɑ:(r)pu:l ]

also carpool, car-pool

( car pools, car pooling, car pooled)

1.

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.

N-COUNT : also N n

2.

If a group of people car pool , they take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other’s children to school. ( mainly AM or AUSTRALIAN )

The government says fewer Americans are carpooling to work.

VERB : V

3.

A car pool is a number of cars that are owned by a company or organization for the use of its employees or members. ( BUSINESS )

N-COUNT

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