Cooperative Meaning
/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjReady to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
adjInvolving cooperation between individuals or parties.
Sentence Examples
I am impatient with those who aren't cooperative.
My mother attached herself to a cooperative society.
Cooperative activity is essential to effective community work.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmers formed a ____ to share equipment and market their crops together.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I am impatient with those who aren't ____.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- English operative English cooperative From co- + operative.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmers formed a ____ to share equipment and market their crops together.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I am impatient with those who aren't ____.