pull in

verb

To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot. (intransitive) · A car just pulled in our driveway.
To approach a station; to arrive at a station. (intransitive) · Quick! The train's pulling in.
To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something. (transitive) · She was pulled in for questioning.
To earn [money]. (transitive) · He pulls in a lot of money.
To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope. (transitive) · pull in the main sheet
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.

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