Co-opt

//ˈkoʊˌɑpt//

Synonyms for "co-opt" (5 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Strong matches (2)

Verb(1 words)

Related words (2)

Verb(2 words)

Related word relations

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3 relation types

Translations

17 translations across 9 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • cooptar verb (elect as a fellow member)

Dutch

1 entries
  • toe-eigenen verb (commandeer)

French

1 entries
  • coopter verb (elect as a fellow member)

German

2 entries
  • kooptieren verb (elect as a fellow member)
  • kooptieren verb (absorb or assimilate)

Ido

1 entries
  • kooptar verb (elect as a fellow member)

Italian

1 entries
  • cooptare verb (elect as a fellow member)

Romanian

1 entries
  • cooptare verb (elect as a fellow member)

Russian

4 entries
  • вобра́ть в себя́ verb (absorb or assimilate)
  • поглоти́ть verb (absorb or assimilate)
  • привлека́ть на свою́ сто́рону verb (absorb or assimilate)
  • принима́ть в соста́в verb (elect as a fellow member)

Spanish

4 entries
  • adueñarse verb (commandeer)
  • arrebatar verb (commandeer)
  • cooptar verb (elect as a fellow member)
  • cooptar verb (commandeer)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.

Source: wiktionary

In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.

Source: wiktionary

Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes […]

Source: wiktionary

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