co-op

See also: Co-op, coop, Coop, .coop, and Coop.

English

Alternative forms

• coop
• coöp

Etymology

From cooperative, by shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊˌɒp/
• Hyphenation: co‧op

Noun

co-op (plural co-ops)

1. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
   • 2024 March 23, Hugo Cox, “Upper East Side story”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 3:

     Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.

2. Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
   • 1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., →ISSN, page 25:

     Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]

   • 1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）]‎^[1], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360:

     In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province. Since then they have put in nearly a year’s intensive work in farm production, finishing up in the autumn with the distribution of the year’s harvest. Our Party has strengthened its political and ideological leadership over them in good time. As a result, the three co-ops have been put on a firm footing and are making considerable headway. They have created a good impression among the peasants outside the co-ops, who say, “The co-ops are doing better in every way than we!” These co-ops are really taking the lead on the road to co-operation.

3. Any shop owned by a cooperative.
4. (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.

Derived terms

• condop

Verb

co-op (third-person singular simple present co-ops, present participle co-oping or co-opping, simple past and past participle co-oped or co-opped)

1. Synonym of cooperate
   • 2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips‎^[2]:

     It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.

Anagrams

• OPOC, POCO