cooperative
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editcooperative (comparative more cooperative, superlative most cooperative)
- 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).
- Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
- a cooperative game
- a cooperative business enterprise
- Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
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editready to work with another
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involving cooperation
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relating to a cooperative
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Noun
editcooperative (plural cooperatives)
- 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.
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edittype of company
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Italian
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editcooperative
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editcooperative f
Latin
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edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ko.ɔ.pɛ.raːˈtiː.wɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ko.o.pe.raˈt̪iː.ve]
Adjective
editcooperātīve
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