cooperative
US/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/
cooperative adjective: ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
Adjective
cooperative (comparative more cooperative, superlative most cooperative)
- Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
- The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
- 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
- Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
- a cooperative game
- a cooperative business enterprise
- Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
Noun
cooperative (plural cooperatives)
- A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
- 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
cooperative meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
cooperative in Hindi
- relating to a cooperative
- सहकारी sahkārī
cooperative in Tamil
- கூட்டுறவுப் பண்ணை, கூட்டுறவு நிறுமம், பண்டாபீசு, கூட்டுறவு வங்கி, கூட்டுறவு, கூட்டுறவு விற்பனை
cooperative in Bengali
- সহকারী
cooperative in Malayalam
- relating to a cooperative
- സഹകരണ sahakaraṇa
More languagesFewer languages
- cooperative in Tagalog
- matutulungin, kooperatiba, tangkilikan
- cooperative in Arabic
- تَعَاوُنِيّ taʕāwuniyy
- cooperative in Indonesian
- koperasi
- cooperative in Thai
- สหกรณ์ sà-hà-gɔɔn
- cooperative in Vietnamese
- hợp tác xã
Examples of cooperative in a sentence
- Additionally, with the development of border tourism, cooperative relations with China have been continuously deepened.
- Here we begin to see that there is a cooperative relationship between the tibonanj and the gwobonanj.
- The Project is not democratic, it is consensus-based; but its do-ocratic and cooperative approach infuses the event.
Antonyms of cooperative
Forms of cooperative
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more cooperative |
| superlative | most cooperative |
| alternative form | co-operative |
| alternative form | coöperative |
| alternative form | co-öperative |
| Noun | |
| plural | cooperatives |
Origin of cooperative
From co- + operative.
Words formed from cooperative
Phrases with cooperative
Questions about cooperative
- What does cooperative mean?
- Cooperative means ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
- What is cooperative in Hindi?
- Cooperative in Hindi is सहकारी (sahkārī). See Cooperative meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cooperative?
- Cooperative can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cooperative?
- Cooperative is pronounced /kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/ (US).
Words near cooperative in the dictionary
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