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carpoolcar‧pool, car-pool /ˈkɑːpuːl $ ˈkɑːr-/ verb [intransitive] especially American English VERB TABLEcarpool |
Present | I, you, we, they | carpool | | he, she, it | carpools | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | carpooled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have carpooled | | he, she, it | has carpooled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had carpooled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will carpool | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have carpooled |
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Present | I | am carpooling | | he, she, it | is carpooling | | you, we, they | are carpooling | Past | I, he, she, it | was carpooling | | you, we, they | were carpooling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been carpooling | | he, she, it | has been carpooling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been carpooling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be carpooling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been carpooling |
- We should encourage more people to carpool.
when you take someone somewhere in a car etc► take/drive somebody somewhere · Could you take me to the station, please?· The President was driven away in a big black limousine.drive somebody home/back · He always expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night. ► lift especially British /ride American if you give someone a lift or a ride , you take them somewhere in your car: · Never accept lifts from strangers.give somebody a lift/ride: · Pedro stopped to give me a lift.lift to: · Do you need a ride to school?a lift/ride home: · I accepted her offer of a lift home. ► carpool a group of car owners who agree to drive everyone in the group to work on different days, so that only one car is used at a time: · I've been in a carpool with the same three women for ten years.carpool lane (=part of a road that only people who share cars can use): · a proposal to open up a new network of carpool lanes if a group of people carpool, they travel together to work, school etc in one car and share the cost—carpooling noun [uncountable] |