CO-OPERATIVE


Meaning of CO-OPERATIVE in English

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

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