carpool

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verb

car·​pool ˈkär-ˌpül How to pronounce carpool (audio)
carpooled; carpooling; carpools

intransitive verb

: to participate in a car pool
carpooler noun

car pool

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noun

: an arrangement in which a group of people commute together by car
also : the group entering into such an arrangement

Examples of carpool in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
This is particularly scary if your teen will be responsible for driving younger siblings to school or picking up friends to carpool to extra-curricular activities. Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 3 Dec. 2023 Others will detour in their cars but find traffic congestion on surface streets, and there are still more people who will carpool. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023 Meet at the Legion, 840 W. Fireweed Lane, to carpool at 9 a.m., or join others at the cemetery’s Veterans Tract at 9:30 a.m. Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023 Guests are encouraged to carpool or use the MTS Green Line trolley to the event. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023 At Adele’s prompting, Corden revealed that, initially, nobody wanted to carpool with him — except, for whatever reason, Mariah Carey. Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023 Every Saturday, some of the congregation’s families carpool to a middle school in Bethesda where children take Ukrainian language and culture classes. Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023 Some used to carpool with colleagues who quit, and others simply can't afford to drive to work anymore at their current rates of pay. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
Noun
On the Israeli side, another car pool took him to Beersheba, the nearest big city in southern Israel. Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023 Franklin said North County had been promised more car pool lanes, an end to the stop light at Interstate 5 and state Route 78 and a better intersection at Interstate 15 and SR 78, and had been taxed for decades without achieving any of those improvements. San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023 Recently, my nine-year-old came home from the soccer car pool in tears, because one of the other boys made mean comments to him on the drive. Rachel Walker, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019 And some of the blue states have better incentives for EV buyers, such as state tax credits or the ability to drive in car pool lanes on highways. Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022 Divorce often means that driving a car pool, paying bills and many other requirements of daily life now land on one set of shoulders not two. Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022 Uber and Lyft started in the early 2010s with just a handful of drivers, resembling car pool services more than professional fleets. Kate Conger, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020 That’s the warning the Rhode Island Department of Health is sounding after tracing a spate of new infections to car pool clusters. NBC News, 13 Oct. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1962, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1942, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of carpool was in 1942

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Cite this Entry

“Carpool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carpool. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

car pool

noun
: an arrangement by a group of automobile owners in which each in turn drives his or her own car and carries the others as passengers usually to and from work
carpool
ˈkär-ˌpül
verb
carpooler noun
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