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co·op·er·a·tive

(kō-ŏp′ər-ə-tĭv, -ə-rā′tĭv, -ŏp′rə-)

adj.

1. Done in cooperation with others: a cooperative effort.

2. Marked by willingness to cooperate; compliant: a cooperative patient.

3. Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services: a cooperative department store; cooperative apartment buildings.

1. An enterprise or organization that is owned or managed jointly by those who use its facilities or services.

a. A building or complex in which the residents buy shares of stock in a building corporation and are given a lease to a specific apartment.

b. An apartment in such a building or complex.

co·op′er·a·tive·ly adv.

co·op′er·a·tive·ness n.

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cooperative

(kəʊˈɒpərətɪv; -ˈɒprə-) or

co-operative

adj

1. willing to cooperate; helpful

2. acting in conjunction with others; cooperating

3. (Economics)

a. (of an enterprise, farm, etc) owned collectively and managed for joint economic benefit

b. (of an economy or economic activity) based on collective ownership and cooperative use of the means of production and distribution

4. (Commerce) a cooperative organization

5. (Commerce) US 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 to: coop Compare condominium³

coˈoperatively, co-ˈoperatively adv

coˈoperativeness, co-ˈoperativeness n

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co•op•er•a•tive

or co-op•er•a•tive

(koʊˈɒp ər ə tɪv, -ˈɒp rə tɪv, -ˈɒp əˌreɪ tɪv)

adj.

1. working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit.

2. demonstrating a willingness to cooperate.

3. pertaining to economic cooperation: a cooperative business.

4. 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.

5. Also called co-op , coop′erative apart′ment.

a. a building owned and managed by a corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy individual units in the building.

b. an apartment in such a building.

[1595–1605; < Late Latin]

co•op′er•a•tive•ly, adv.

co•op′er•a`tive•ness, n.

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Noun	1.	cooperative - a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners co-op commercial enterprise - an enterprise connected with commerce
	2.	cooperative - an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"
Adj.	1.	cooperative - involving the joint activity of two or more; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" concerted, conjunctive, conjunct joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
	2.	cooperative - done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit; "a cooperative effort" helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful function uncooperative - unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness"
	3.	cooperative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement accommodative noncompetitive - not involving competition or competitiveness; "noncompetitive positions"; "noncompetitive interest in games"

cooperative

adjective

1. shared, united, joint, combined, concerted, collective, unified, coordinated, collaborative The visit was intended to develop cooperative relations between the countries.

2. helpful, obliging, accommodating, supportive, responsive, onside (informal) I made every effort to be co-operative.

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cooperative

adjective

Working together toward a common end:

collaborative, synergetic, synergic, synergistic.

Translations

družstvo

Genossenschaft

συνεργάσιμος συνεργατικός

cooperativa cooperativo

samarbeidsvillig

ochotný spolupracovať

sodelujoč

cooperative

[kəʊˈɒpərətɪv]

A. ADJ

1. [attitude] → colaborador, cooperador; [person] → servicial, dispuesto a ayudar

2. [farm etc] → cooperativo

B. N → cooperativa f

C. CPD cooperative society N (Brit) → cooperativa f

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cooperative

adj

(= prepared to comply) → kooperativ; (= prepared to help) → hilfsbereit; if any member does not have a cooperative attitude → wenn ein Mitglied nicht bereit ist mitzumachen

firm → auf Genossenschaftsbasis; cooperative farm → Bauernhof m → auf Genossenschaftsbasis

n → Genossenschaft f, → Kooperative f; (also cooperative farm) → Bauernhof m → auf Genossenschaftsbasis

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cooperative

[kəʊˈɒp/ərətɪv]

1. adj

a. (person) → disposto/a a collaborare
you're not very cooperative! → non sei di grande aiuto!

b. (farm) → cooperativo/a

2. n → cooperativa

cooperative

adj colaborador

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Fyodor came from a village at some distance from the one in which Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association.

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It has enabled us to be more social and cooperative. It has literally abolished the isolation of separate families, and has made us members of one great family.

The ordinary newspaper in a small town cannot afford such a service, but recently the United Press has originated a cooperative method.

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The expropriators are expropriated." And as fast as capitalistic governments crashed, cooperative commonwealths arose in their place.

At once would be instituted a dozen cooperative commonwealth states.

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He did not belong with us, yet we were still so primitive ourselves that we were incapable of a cooperative effort strong enough to kill him or cast him out.

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Indeed, so many things were spilled and dropped upon the bed that toward night-time it had become a sort of small cooperative store.

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He's a tramp - laziest man I ever knew, though he's clerking, or trying to, in a socialist cooperative store for six dollars a week.

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Some of these places were kept by private persons, some were cooperative. There would be an average of half a dozen boarders to each room--sometimes there were thirteen or fourteen to one room, fifty or sixty to a flat.

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"I understand you to mean that the whole of modern society is based upon cooperative effort.

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UasinGishu youth have been urged to join cooperative movements to enable the government to support them with ease.

UasinGishu youth urged to join cooperatives to boost incomes

KARACHI: As many as 603 cooperative societies in the port city have been non-functional since day one and a majority of them are allegedly involved in cheating the general public by selling them non-existent plots, according to an official document.The revelation was made in a letter issued by the Cooperative Societies Deputy Registrar on March 13, according to which a number of fake cooperative housing societies are fraudulently selling non-existent plots".