cooperative
Collocations
5(noun.)
ADJ
community, worker | agricultural, farmer/farming | production
VERB + COOPERATIVE
form
run sth as
The farmers decided to run their dairy operation as a cooperative to share costs.
Definitions
adj
Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
a cooperative game
a cooperative business enterprise
Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
noun
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.”
Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by
adjective — willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreemen
- accommodative
adjective — involving the joint activity of two or more
Antonyms
- uncooperative
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
WiktionarySantorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken the
Wiktionarya cooperative game
WiktionaryThe 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.”
WiktionaryAmong wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
WiktionaryIt's not only the health aspects of sports that appeal to people, but the cooperative aspect that team sports teach, and the competitive aspect in itself.
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