The phrase "act as a pool" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is functioning as a gathering place or source of resources, similar to how a pool collects water.
Example: "The community center will act as a pool for local resources, providing support and information to residents."
Alternatives: "serve as a hub" or "function as a reservoir".
In health care, for example, the government could act as a pooler, forming health-insurance-purchasing cooperatives, randomly assigning unaffiliated individuals to groups that would then contract with private insurers.
Some of the journalists here for the war crimes trials attended the other proceedings and acted as a pool for the news media contingent.
Interestingly, since the existence of MoS2 provided trapping sites for the plasmon-excited thermal electrons of AgNDs and in turn the AgNDs acted as a "pool" to gather photoexcited electrons of the MoS2, the invalid recombination of the photoexcited electron hole pairs was greatly suppressed.
She also points to the richness of the city, its myriad of skilled artisans and the vast creative talent that acts as a pool for New York brands to draw upon.
The American Red Cross itself acted as a pooled fund after the Asian tsunami.
In this paper, we consider that the spectrum exchange acts as a pooling point that enables the delivery of wireless services through spectrum acquired by a buyer in exchange.
A fund of funds will act as a gatekeeper, pooling money from many sources, then committing to a dozen or more funds.
The QPGs actually act as a subsidiary candidate pool for the APGs in case the empirical thresholds are set too high to extract structures merely from the APGs.
However, the CE partition is not only used as a CE point between the VP s, but also acts as a common pool for all the ISG s.
The organization has since created a centralized data team that acts as a shared pool of resources built to derive value out of that data.
