pool
verb/puːl/
/puːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pool | /puːl/ /puːl/ |
| he / she / it pools | /puːlz/ /puːlz/ |
| past simple pooled | /puːld/ /puːld/ |
| past participle pooled | /puːld/ /puːld/ |
| -ing form pooling | /ˈpuːlɪŋ/ /ˈpuːlɪŋ/ |
- pool something to collect money, information, etc. from different people so that it can be used by all of them
- The students work individually, then pool their ideas in groups of six.
- Police forces across the country are pooling resources in order to solve this crime.
Word Originverb late 17th cent. (originally denoting a game of cards having a pool): from French poule in the sense ‘stake, kitty’, associated with pool ‘small area of liquid’.
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