cooperative store

noun

1. a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
2. a store operated by a farmers' cooperative organization or by a cooperative chain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cooperative store¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

It is a sort of natural cooperative store, every polype helping the whole, at the same time as it helps itself.

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It is different because it is a cooperative store and it belongs to those who buy as well as to those who serve.

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This sum would have gone into the pockets of private storekeepers except for the cooperative store.

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A thriving business was being done by still another cooperative store in New York.

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Another cooperative store, this time in the Bronx, was taken over by the manager within one year.

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