cooperative

comparative more cooperative · superlative most cooperative · alternative co-operative · alternative coöperative · alternative co-öperative

1. Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.

   The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.

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   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).

   2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12

2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.

   a cooperative game

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   a cooperative business enterprise

3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.

plural cooperatives · alternative co-operative · alternative coöperative · alternative co-öperative

1. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.

   Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

   1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13

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   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.”

   1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153