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   pool

   /puːl/

   noun

   • 1. a shared supply of vehicles or resources to be drawn on when needed: "a car pool" Similar supplycommon supplyreserve(s)storereservoirstockstockpileaccumulationstorehousehoardcachefundbacklog
   • ▪ a group of people available for work when required or considered as a resource: "the typing pool" Similar supplycommon supplyreserve(s)storereservoirstockstockpileaccumulationstorehousehoardcachefundbacklog
   • ▪ a common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided: "big public investment pools" Similar fundreservekittypotbankpursejackpotantestakes
   • ▪ the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes; a kitty: "dividends are calculated by dividing the net pool by the stakes on the winners"
   • ▪ another term for football pool
   • 2. a game played on a small billiard table using two sets of seven coloured and numbered balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball, with the aim of pocketing all one's own balls and then the black.
   • 3. a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round: "the sides in Pool A"
   • 4. an arrangement, illegal in many countries, between competing parties to fix prices or rates and share business in order to eliminate competition: "pool arrangements by the competing networks reduce individual costs"

   verb

   • 1. (of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund: "they entered a contract to pool any gains and invest them profitably"
   • ▪ share (resources or information) for the benefit of all involved: "the skills of teachers can be pooled and shared"

   Word Origin late 17th century (originally denoting a game of cards having a pool): from French poule in the sense ‘stake, kitty’, associated with pool1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pooler noun

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