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cooperative
[ koh-op-er-uh-tiv, -op-ruh-tiv, -op-uh-rey-tiv ]
adjective
- working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- demonstrating a willingness to cooperate:
The librarian was cooperative in helping us find the book.
- pertaining to economic cooperation:
a cooperative business.
- involving or denoting an educational program comprising both classroom study and on-the-job or technical training, especially in colleges and universities.
noun
- a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers.
- Also called co-op,
- a building owned and managed by a corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy individual units in the building.
- an apartment in such a building. Compare condominium ( defs 1, 2 ).
cooperative
/ kəʊˈɒpərətɪv; -ˈɒprə- /
adjective
- willing to cooperate; helpful
- acting in conjunction with others; cooperating
- (of an enterprise, farm, etc) owned collectively and managed for joint economic benefit
- (of an economy or economic activity) based on collective ownership and cooperative use of the means of production and distribution
noun
- a cooperative organization
- Also calledcooperative apartment a block of flats belonging to a corporation in which shares are owned in proportion to the relative value of the flat occupied Sometimes shortened tocoop Compare condominium
Derived Forms
- coˈoperativeness, noun
- coˈoperatively, adverb
Other Words From
- co·op·er·a·tive·ly co-op·er·a·tive·ly [koh-, op, -er-, uh, -tiv-lee, -, op, -r, uh, -tiv-, -, op, -, uh, -rey-tiv-], adverb
- co·op·er·a·tive·ness co-op·er·a·tive·ness noun
- un·co·op·er·a·tive adjective
- un·co·op·er·a·tive·ly adverb
- un·co·op·er·a·tive·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of cooperative1
Example Sentences
Magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.
When officers tried to arrest him after he grew angry, Garner was non-cooperative.
Another widows cooperative, Avega, is also currently attempting to open a retirement home for widows of the genocide.
The agency was not only cooperative, but “welcoming” of the research.
Take this lack of cooperative instinct and add a competitive situation, and Benenson says you get a real conundrum.
Sometimes a farmer would give a sheep, and the local cooperative society provided the bread at half the cost of production.
But when he tried to express the cooperative impulse that stirred within him, his noises became gibberish.
At the end of 1836 the hand-loom weavers of Philadelphia proper had two cooperative shops and were planning to open a third.
The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.
The cooperative principle met with success among the English-speaking people only outside the larger cities.
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