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

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Verb
That’s less than the 9% who carpool and 13% who work from home. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 19 May 2026 Zoe’s brother, a high school junior, is old enough to carpool or take public transit, which means one less schedule to juggle. — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2026
Noun
But a late-afternoon meeting ran over, urgent emails kept popping up in your inbox and your kid’s car pool fell through. — Hilary Achauer, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 From making lunches to coordinating the car pool schedule, there is just more to manage. — Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carpool

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1945, 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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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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