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coop

coop

2 5.3
A building owned and run by its members who live there
  • noun
  • /kuːp/
: 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.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Many people choose to join a coop because it offers a sense of belonging and shared responsibility.

Synonyms

co-op
vscoop
40 3.8

A business owned and run by its members who share the profits

focuses on residential property ownership and member occupancy rather than business activity
cooperative
vscoop
32 3.4

An organization owned and run by a group of people to help them sell or buy goods

is specific to residential buildings where members own shares and occupy units

Idioms

to fly the coop
  • Informal
4 7.9

To leave a place suddenly without permission

Compounds

14 1.3

A small building where people keep chickens

How Communal

commune
24 5.0
coop
2 5.3
cohousing
1 5.2

Surface Forms

coop singular
coops plural

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.