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repool en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + pool.

Meanings

  1. To return (something) to a pool (in various senses) after having previously taken it out; to pool again.
    • The government's banks are offering high interest on savings as another means of repooling capital that the eighties dispersed so widely. 1999, Hill Gates, Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 199:
    • to repool a server
    • I'm also repooling db1179 (x1) now (after checking for errors since it just started after hardware crash: T369855: db1179 crashed - hardware issues) that would prevent the circuit breaking to kick in for x1 and reduce the impact of the issue. 2024 July 21, Ladsgroup [Amir Sarabadani], “Exception caught inside exception handler: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBUnexpectedError: Database servers in extension1 are overloaded.”, in Wikimedia Phabricator, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
    • to repool money

Forms

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repooling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
repooled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
repooled Tense=Past lexicographic
repools Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic