also cooperative
( co-operatives)
1.
A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits. ( BUSINESS )
They decided a housing co-operative was the way to regenerate Ormiston Crescent...
The restaurant is run as a co-operative.
= collective
N-COUNT
2.
A co-operative activity is done by people working together.
He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth co-operative effort between Egyptian and US authorities...
ADJ : usu ADJ n
• co-operatively
They agreed to work co-operatively to ease tensions wherever possible.
ADV : ADV after v
3.
If you say that someone is co-operative , you mean that they do what you ask them to without complaining or arguing.
I made every effort to be co-operative.
= obliging
ADJ