coop
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- noun
- /kuːp/
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cooperativa de viviendas
- Our community decided to form a housing coop to improve our living conditions and share resources.
- food coop
- coop members
And many of those coops, as I said, they had relatively little capital.
- And many of those coops, as I said, they had relatively little capital.
Examples
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Let's say you're paying $1700 a month for a 1-bedroom/1-bath coop apartment in a Navy Yard high-rise.
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Organic sun-dried coffee from a coop of small producers in Turrialba.
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I come up here, I sit in my coop and I read.
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I was born in 1931. We were very poor; we lived in a converted chicken coop.
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I lived in the Avenue C coops, and there were plenty of us.
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In Esmeralda Ramirez's coop, only half of the nearly 30 founders remain.
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"The history of worker coops is a mixed bag," says Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative.
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When you leave North Cape, stop in at the fisherman's coop at Tignish; this community has some very photogenic buildings that you will want to linger over.
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Living in a coop has allowed us to connect with our neighbors and help each other more easily.
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Many people choose to join a coop because it offers a sense of belonging and shared responsibility.
Synonyms
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3.4
An organization owned and run by a group of people to help them sell or buy goods
A business owned and run by its members who share the profits
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How Communal
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Etymology
The word coop for housing is short for cooperative, where co- means 'together' and the idea is people 'work' and own the building as a group, so a coop is housing run by its members.