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cooperatives

cooperatives is the plural of cooperative.

Meaning of cooperative

Noun

cooperative (plural cooperatives)

  1. 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

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Questions about cooperatives

What is cooperatives the plural of?
Cooperatives is the plural of cooperative.

Words near cooperatives in the dictionary

  1. cooperative game
  2. cooperative games
  3. cooperative principle
  4. cooperatively
  5. cooperativeness
  6. cooperatives
  7. cooperativism
  8. cooperativist
  9. cooperativists
  10. cooperativities
  11. cooperativity

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