cooperative
noun/kəʊˈɒpərətɪv/
/kəʊˈɑːpərətɪv/
(British English also co-operative)
- a cooperative business or other organization
- agricultural cooperatives in India
- The factory is now a workers' cooperative.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1- The family business is now run as a cooperative.
- The ‘Daily Worker’ was run as a cooperative.
- a local/community/farming/food/dairy cooperative
- an agricultural cooperative
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- community
- worker
- workers’
- …
- form
- run something as
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin cooperativus, from Latin cooperat- ‘worked together’, from the verb cooperari, from co- ‘together’ + operari ‘to work’.Definitions on the go
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