cooperative

• co-operative, coöperative, co-öperative

From co- +‎ operative.

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cooperative (comparative more cooperative, superlative most cooperative)

1. Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.

   The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.

   • 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.

   a cooperative game

   a cooperative business enterprise

3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.

• adversarial
• competitive

• Co-operative Republic of Guyana

cooperative (plural cooperatives)

2. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
   • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village‎^[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153:

     The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”

   • 1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13:

     Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

• cooperative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

cooperative

1. feminine plural of cooperativo

cooperative f

1. plural of cooperativa

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ko.ɔ.pɛ.raːˈtiː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.o.pe.raˈt̪iː.ve]

cooperātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of cooperātīvus