cooperative
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- noun
- /koʊˈɒpərətɪv/
:
cooperativa
- Does that mean the other partner in the cooperative gets whatever money is left in the account?"
- farmers' cooperative
- agricultural cooperatives
- workers' cooperative
This came from a local supplier, Snake River Seed Cooperative.
- This came from a local supplier, Snake River Seed Cooperative.
- Yeah, He he I mean, what's interesting is the the sort of the cartel was loosely a kind of cooperative in a way.
- That's the law, that the workers can buy the company and convert it into a democratically run worker cooperative.
Examples
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Divine Chocolate is co-owned by a Ghanaian cocoa farmer's cooperative in the town of Kuapa Kokoo.
Academic text (2008) -
The workers who occupied the Bauen had organized and registered as a workers' cooperative soon after the occupation.
Academic text (2008) -
At Black Gold Cooperative, all you need is to want it!
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But if you have a cooperative, it's again owned by its members, controlled by its members.
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Welcome to Black Gold Cooperative.
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Welcome to the Prospect Park Cooperative School.
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A Missouri company eager to join the cooperative is in the product development stage.
Academic text (1999) -
Atlantic Silver is a marketing cooperative composed of 20 members that was established in 1985.
Academic text (1990) -
It's the village, in this case, my hometown, Roncocesi, where there's a church, a bar, a cooperative, the usual things.
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The members of the community established a cooperative to share resources and support each other.
Synonyms
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A group of people who work together and share tools and money
A business owned and run by its members who share the profits
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
cooperative = cooperative (semi-transparent) = co + operate + ive
The noun is a substantivized use of the adjective 'cooperative'; the connection is clear, but the organizational meaning is specialized.
Etymology
Cooperative also names a business where people 'work together' and is often called a co-op. It comes from co- 'together' and operate 'to work', so members own and run it for their shared benefit.