Meanings
nouncoöptation (uncountable)
- uncountableDated spelling of cooptation.
It may be observed that the draft rules make no provision for coöptation, an arrangement that appears nevertheless in the rules of many local associations.
1908, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, The Government of England, page 481
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