verb
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(of a liquid) To form a pool.
verb
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To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
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We must pool our resources.
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To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
noun
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(resource management) Grouping together of various resources or assets.
Examples of pooling in a Sentence
The material hugged the natural curves of her body, pooling at the top of her feet.
We save a lot of money by pooling our rent.
She opened her eyes, staring at his open eyes and still body, at the blood pooling around her.
She felt a hint of the trance she'd fallen into when he bit her, the coursing of desire and pooling of heat in her lower belly.
The practice of pooling seems not to have attracted the attention of the legislature.
It made provision for publicity of rates and for due notice of any change in rates; it forbade pooling of freight or earnings, and required annual reports from the carriers.
Chest physiotherapy may help to prevent atelectasis and pooling of secretions.
Make the most of checked-in baggage allowances by ' pooling ' your baggage with others you're traveling with.
Whilst we were rock pooling by the beach my daughter found a small colony of what I assume were hermit crabs.
With Jupiter also retrograde (from 5th ), the effect of pooling resources could be considered.
Pooling Scheme A Scheme to establish a particular type of common investment fund whose main characteristic is common trusteeship.
In the United States the years from 1870 to 1875 witnessed sweeping and generally ill-considered legislation (" Granger " Acts) concerning railway charges throughout the Mississippi valley; while the years from 1884 to 1887 were marked by more conservative, and for that reason more enforceable, acts, which culminated in the Interstate Commerce Act, prohibiting personal discrimination and gradually restricting discrimination between places, and providing for a National Commission of very considerable power - not to speak of the pooling clause, which was extraneous to the general purpose of the act, and has tended to defeat rather than strengthen its operation.
The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.
Reordering priorities, untying aid and pooling funds internationally could all release additional funds for the poorest countries.
With Jupiter also retrograde (from 5th), the effect of pooling resources could be considered.
The premise behind scoopable litter is that you don't get liquid feces or urine pooling in the bottom of the litter box.
This usually includes a parcel of land that's too large for even several families pooling their money together to own.
To purchase a gift over your budget, consider pooling your money with other guests, such as co-workers or relatives, in order to buy a big item but without anyone needing to spend more than 100 dollars.
Concentrated factor preparations may be obtained from a single donor, by pooling the donations of as many as thousands of donors, or by laboratory creation through highly advanced genetic techniques.
The low melting point caused the candles to burn quickly, and the wax ran down the sides, pooling in large masses.
This taste is the result of your blood pooling in your mouth, mixed with the tattoo ink.
The process is often called "blood pooling."
This in turn prevents blood pooling, while removing waste products from the muscles.