pull in
About 0.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot.
A car just pulled in our driveway.
- verb To approach a station; to arrive at a station.
Quick! The train's pulling in.
- verb To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something.
She was pulled in for questioning.
- verb To earn [money].
He pulls in a lot of money.
- verb To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope.
pull in the main sheet
- verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, in: To pull something, so that it comes inside.
After falling out of the boat, the crew pulled him in.
Similar words
pull move in accumulate draw in rope in get in fetch gain take in collect
Word family
pulled in pulling in pulls in
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