cooperative
adjEtymology
From co- + operative.
- derived from operātīvus
- derived from operatif
- inherited from operative
Definitions
Ready to work with another person or in a team
Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
- The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
- 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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A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or…
A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
- 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.”
- Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
The neighborhood
- antonymadversarial
- antonymcompetitive
- neighborcooperation
- neighborcooperatively
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cooperative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cooperative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at cooperative
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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