co-op

plural co-ops · alternative coop · alternative coöp

1. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.

   Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.

   2024 March 23, Hugo Cox, “Upper East Side story”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

2. Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.

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   Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]

   1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., →ISSN, page 25

   In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province. Since then they have put in nearly a year’s intensive work in farm production, finishing up in the autumn with the distribution of the year’s harvest. Our Party has strengthened its political and ideological leadership over them in good time. As a result, the three co-ops have been put on a firm footing and are making considerable headway. They have created a good impression among the peasants outside the co-ops, who say, “The co-ops are doing better in every way than we!” These co-ops are really taking the lead on the road to co-operation.

   中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

   1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360

3. Any shop owned by a cooperative.
4. board gamesvideo gamesA cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.

present singular third person co-ops · participle present co-oping · participle present co-opping · participle past co-oped · past co-oped · participle past co-opped · past co-opped · alternative coop · alternative coöp

1. Synonym of cooperate.

   It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.

   2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips

   Synonyms: cooperate

2. ambitransitivegamesTo play a game in a cooperative style.

   Oh, you have this game too? We should co-op some time.

plural Co-ops

1. UKinformalAny of very many shops belonging to the Co-operative Group and its predecessors