cooperative
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English
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[edit]cooperative (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.
Antonyms
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[edit]ready to work with another
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involving cooperation
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relating to a cooperative
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Noun
[edit]cooperative (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.”
Translations
[edit]type of company
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Further reading
[edit]cooperative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
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[edit]cooperative
Noun
[edit]cooperative f
Latin
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[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ko.o.pe.raːˈtiː.u̯e/, [koɔpɛräːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ko.o.pe.raˈti.ve/, [koːperäˈt̪iːve]
Adjective
[edit]cooperātīve
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