pooling

Pluralpoolings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of pool.

   Blood was pooling beneath the injured runner before help arrived.

   Pooling resources across departments cut the company's overall costs.

   Note

   The participle carries both halves of pool. Liquid that is pooling collects on its own and takes no object, like blood pooling under a wound. People who are pooling money put something into a common fund. That second use has a commercial edge: it implies shared profits or losses, and it extends to speculation and gambling. It can also stand without an object, as in investors pooling with one another.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The combining of various resources or assets into a shared group.

   Like several streams joining into one reservoir that everyone can draw from.

   The pooling of regional water supplies improved access during the drought.

   Resource pooling among the partner firms reduced their duplicated spending.

   Similarsharing, consolidation, combining, amalgamation

   Note

   In resource management the word usually names the act of combining: the pooling of supplies, resource pooling among partners. It is mostly uncountable, but separate arrangements can be counted as poolings. As a noun it takes of before what is combined. The verb form takes a direct object instead, so you say pooling resources, not pooling of resources.

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