cooperativeadj.n.
/kəʊˈɒp(ə)rətɪv/, U.S. /koʊˈɑp(ə)rədɪv/, /koʊˈɑpəˌreɪdɪv/ A. adj.
1. Of or relating to cooperation; having the quality or function of cooperating; that works together, or with another or others, towards the same end, purpose, or effect; collaborative. Also: that complies with an authority, order, request, etc., or is willing to be of assistance.
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the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating together
concurrent1532
co-operant1598
co-operative1603
concurring1633
brotherly1638
coefficient1665
co-working1670
synenergetical1682
conspiring1730
consentient1737
co-ordinate1769
synergetic1821
synergistic1832
synergic1836
synergetical1856
society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [adjective]
concurrent1532
conspiring1576
co-operant1598
co-operative1603
coadjuting1612
coadjutive1628
concurring1633
coadjutant1706
co-agent1840
coacting1843
synergetical1856
collaborating1872
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 65 Some other kinde of perswasive power cooperative with it [Fr. quelque autre maniere d'apriuoisement & de persuasion].
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 38 Al other causes were but..concauses, and cooperative under God.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV IV. 2 Not as an immediate, but as a co-operative cause.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. x. 621 Four great principles..mutually co-operative.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 May 1 With regard to a young English statesman, we want to know two things mainly—his intrinsic value, and his co-operative capacity.
1918 W. G. Bleyer Profession of Journalism 114 The Associated Press is the child of the first effort at cooperative news-gathering ever made.
1937 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Sept. 952/1 Dr. Jansen has been very cooperative in discussing the matter of nomenclature for vitamin B1.
2013 Artist May 34/1 If you've ever shared your home with one you'll know that cats are not exactly co-operative creatures.
2. Of, relating to, or embodying the principle of economic cooperation (see cooperation n. 2); designating an organization which is owned and run jointly, with each member contributing towards it and also sharing its profits or benefits.The earliest cooperative societies and stores (originally concerned primarily with the production or distribution of goods among the working classes) were established as a first step towards a contemplated communistic organization of society (see cooperation n. 2). This primary aim was gradually abandoned, and in 1844, the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society introduced the principle of giving the profits not to the owners of the business, but, at least partly, to the customers.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > co-operative or collective
co-operation1817
co-operative society1821
combine1887
project1916
co-operative1921
collective1925
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions
imperial1726
co-operative1821
protectionist1844
inflationist1876
rational1915
deflationist1921
rationalist1942
producer-oriented1946
redistributionist1949
substantivist1956
supply side1957
demand-pull1958
tax-and-spend1960
stop-and-go1961
stop-go1962
go-stop1964
supply-driven1973
demand-side1975
supply side1976
demand-driven1980
1808 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. xiv. 135 If co-operative labour were as practicable as it is desirable, what a history of English literature might he and you and I set forth!]
1821 Resolution at meeting of Printers 22 Jan. in Economist 27 Jan. 15 That a Society, to be denominated ‘The Co-operative and Economical Society’, be now formed.
1851 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 25 Jan. 195/1 A very thriving co-operative association at Rochdale, which has existed for more than six years... The members..share the benefits in the reduced price of the articles bought at the establishment.
1884 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 2 Apr. 10/4 The advantages which the Nebraskan Mennonites secure by co-operative purchasing of their implements, machinery, and supplies of all kinds, are manifestly..great.
1926 Billboard 21 Aug. 41/3 They will spend about a week in Moscow, studying the new co-operative studio system in which artist, camera-man and director all share the same rights and responsibility, none having power to command the others.
1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind ii. xiii. 209 He was one of the prime movers in establishing a co-operative movement amongst the fishermen in Stromness to improve the marketing of their fish.
2017 New Statesman 5 May (Suppl.) 4/3 It will be the first of its kind in the UK—a trade union and co-operative partnership that delivers not just much-needed affordable desk space for people to work but invaluable support as they go about their business.
3. U.S. Designating an apartment building that is owned and managed jointly by its residents; of or relating to such a building or its residents. Cf. co-op adj. 2.
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1870 Lehigh Register (Allentown, Pa.) 16 Nov. Park Godwin of New York has formed a company of seventy-five persons..for the purpose of erecting a co-operative house arranged in suites, of which each person who joins the association shall be the exclusive owner and proprietor.
1931 H. Broun & G. Britt Christians Only viii. 262 Cooperative apartment houses rest upon the theory of individual home ownership... After control has passed into the hands of the occupants, new admissions are protected by a blackball system as effectively as in a club.
2019 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. (M.B. Section) 1 The dispute at the Clinton Hill Cooperative apartments..involves a single apartment and a beloved handyman who lives there.
B. n.† 1. A person who practises or advocates cooperation (cooperation n. 2); a member of a cooperative organization. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > member of trade union
co-operative1827
trade unionist1833
unionist1833
co-operator1863
pie card1931
1821 Economist 20 Oct. 210 I wish every prosperity to the Co-operatives in the Metropolis, whose aparent [sic] excellent spirit, and the means they possess within themselves, seem to ensure them a progressive amelioration.
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 148 The Birmingham Co-operatives have made a perilous declaration, that they aim at nothing short of ‘a Community in Land and Goods’.
1920 Times 10 May 11/6 (headline) Arrest of cooperatives.
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a. An association or society, esp. one concerned with the production or distribution of goods or provision of services, which is owned and run jointly by its members, and shares its benefits among them. Cf. sense A. 2.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > co-operative or collective
co-operation1817
co-operative society1821
combine1887
project1916
co-operative1921
collective1925
1829 Westmorland Gaz. & Kendal Advertiser 24 Oct. I've just cumt fra't copperative en a terrible girt meetin weev hed—thear was aboon a hundred ov us.
1921 Proc. 3rd Nat. Country Life Conf. 1920 (U.S.) 53 Farmers' co-operatives..are more analogous..to the workmen producers' co-operatives than they are to the consumers' co-operatives.
1966 Economist 23 Apr. 365/1 There are now nearly a thousand rural electrical co-operatives and 225 telephone co-operatives.
2016 Time Out Hong Kong 18 May 59/4 Breitenbush operates as a worker-owned co-operative that hosts more than 150 events annually.
b. A store, shop, or other enterprise which is owned and run by a cooperative association or society, whose members share its profits. Cf. sense A. 2.Frequently as part of the proper name of a particular store, etc., as in Mandela Food Cooperative.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > co-operative store
store1852
co-operative1883
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 126 As we are so close to the Co-operative we might order those things.
1991 O. Clarke Webster's Wine Guide 1992 104/1 RC A new designation indicating récoltant-co-pérateur—for a grower selling wine produced at a co-operative.
2008 Credit Union Times (Nexis) 7 May Members agree to allow only members of their household to shop at the cooperative on their membership for a one-time fee of $90, refundable should they decide to leave.
c. U.S. An apartment building that is owned and managed jointly by its residents; the residents of such a building collectively. Cf. co-op n.3 4.
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1961 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 11 Nov. (Home ed.) 19/5 (heading) Condominiums and other cooperatives to flourish.
1973 Time 16 July 43 The builder-residents will make payments as low as $80 per month and ultimately own the building as a cooperative.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. (Late City Final ed.) (Real Estate Desk section) 1/1 There is another argument for raising the equity in subsidized cooperatives, as explained by..[the] secretary for the board of directors... She said the cooperative would like to have higher-income families.
2020 Crain's N.Y. Business (Nexis) 11 May 3 Andrew Brucker, a lawyer at Armstrong Teasdale who represents condominiums and cooperatives with garages, said his wife has ordered him to avoid the Metro-North when he resumes commuting to the city.
Compounds
cooperative breeding n. (a) breeding of animals or plants, esp. livestock or agricultural crops, by a society, institution, or union of people; (b) the provision of care for offspring by individuals other than the breeding pair, esp. as a behaviour or quality characteristic of certain species; cf. alloparent n.
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1877 Atlantic Monthly May 594/2 The cooperative breeding of live stock cannot as yet be said to have become well established, but its possibilities of success are considerable.
1968 D. Lack Ecol. Adaptations for Breeding in Birds vii. 72 In true cooperative breeding, or communal breeding as it is sometimes called, several adults help to feed one brood, and in a few of the species concerned, more than one female lays in the same nest.
1994 R. Haines Biotechnol. Forest Tree Improvem. iii. 39 With the increasing emphasis on cooperative breeding of both industrial and non-industrial forest tree species in tropical countries, international movement of material will become increasingly important.
2021 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Oct. Some of the most distinctive traits of songbirds arose in Australia such as female song and cooperative breeding (young of previous years help their parents raise more offspring).
cooperative education n. (a) a programme or system of education provided by a cooperative organization, or under a cooperative arrangement (now rare); (b) a programme or system of education that combines classroom-based teaching with practical work experience, esp. through a paid or unpaid work placement.
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of
university extension1839
Philanthropinism1842
Arnoldismc1845
co-education1852
Pestalozzianism1859
kindergartenism1872
secularism1872
community education1873
Froebelism1879
co-ed1886
extramuralism1892
vocationalism1901
heurism1909
sandwich1913
Montessori1917
Montessorianism1917
Juku system1931
polytechnization1932
day release1936
essentialism1939
comprehensivization1958
multitracking1989
?1830 W. Thompson Pract. Direct. Establishm. Communities 202 To enable every one to acquire such knowledge and such habits, now within the reach of almost none, would be one of the results of co-operative education.
1906 Commerc. Tribune (Cincinnati) 15 Feb. 4/7 The co-operative education plan..has been proposed by the University and prominent manufacturers of Cincinnati..to give the opportunity for technical education to the employees at the big machine shops.
1935 S. Webb & B. Webb Soviet Communism I. iv. 319 Cooperative education. Special mention must be made of the extensive network of educational organisations maintained by the consumers' cooperative movement.
2021 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Oct. 23 UL [= University of Limerick] pioneered the concept of co-operative education in Ireland, placing more than 2,000 students in paid and semi-paid work placements annually.
cooperative principle n. Linguistics the precept that speakers normally try to cooperate when communicating, esp. by aiming to be truthful, informative, relevant, and clear.Coined by H. P. Grice (1913–88), English philosopher, in a lecture delivered in 1967 as one of the 1967–8 William James lectures at Harvard University, but not published until 8 years later (see quot. 1975). In later use often with reference to Grice's theory.
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1970 G. Lakoff in Synthese 22 268 Grice has, I believe, given an essentially correct account of what is going on in this example. According to his Cooperative Principle.., it is assumed in conversation that one gives all of the relevant information.
1975 H. P. Grice in P. Cole & J. L. Morcan Syntax & Semantics III. 45 Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged. One might label this the cooperative principle.
1995 Disc. & Society 6 208 People who answer questions usually try to please the questioner. This is at the heart of the cooperative principle.
2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. Paul Grice's cooperative principle..says that we're driven by our interest not only in getting along, but that all conversation rests upon our assumption that the other participant is acting in good faith.
cooperative shop n. a shop owned and run by a cooperative association or society, whose members share its profits; cf. cooperative store n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > co-operative store
store1852
co-operative1883
1829 Lion 30 Jan. 143 Let us suppose a co-operative shop of this kind in any small township.
1921 Woman's Outlook Mar. 12/32 I find I can spread co-operation most easily among women if I prove to them first the wonderful quality of the goods sold at the co-operative shops.
2013 M. Feroze Cheese & I (2016) iv. 60 Bruno spends some of his time working in a cooperative shop set up by local producers to allow them to sell direct to the public.
cooperative society n. a society or union of persons for the production or distribution of goods, in which the profits or benefits are shared by all the contributing members.Frequently in proper names.
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1823 Westmorland Gaz. & Kendal Advertiser 6 Sept. A person of the name of Bright..has, for some time past, opened the house which was in the occupation of the Co-operative Society, in Bagnigge Wells Road, as a public-house.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. 244 That a country of any large extent could be formed into a single ‘Co-operative Society’, is indeed not easily conceivable.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 171/2 Under this mixed economy there is a large and developed system of trade unionism among producers, and another..system of co-operative societies among consumers.
2010 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Mar. 23 The coffee house is owned by a co-operative society founded in the full flush of 1950s Indian socialism to guarantee cheap food, drink and a meeting place for workers, intellectuals and political activists alike.
cooperative store n. a store or shop owned and run by a cooperative association or society, whose members share its profits; cf. cooperative shop n.
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?1827 London Co-operative Trading Fund Assoc.: Meeting of Shareholders 11th Dec. 1827 (single sheet) verso It was notified to the meeting that the lower floor of No. 36 Red Lion Square would be put at the disposition of the Association for their use as a Co-operative Store, free of rent and taxes for at least one year, by the munificence of the members of the London Co-operative Society.
1981 B. Head Serowe xxv. 171 A co-operative store could be made workable with a range of goods the members had produced themselves.
2005 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 17 Sept. (News section) Runanga became an incubator for the socialist ideology even to the extent of starting a co-operative store with grocery, drapery, boot repair and bakery departments.
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