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Cooperative

//kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

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

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

  2. 2
    Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.

    "a cooperative game"

  3. 3
    Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement wordnet
  2. 2
    done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit wordnet
  3. 3
    involving the joint activity of two or more wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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.”"

  2. 2
    a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners wordnet
  3. 3
    an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From co- + operative.

Etymology 2

From co- + operative.

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