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cooptations

cooptations is the plural of cooptation.

Meaning of cooptation

Noun

cooptation (countable and uncountable, plural cooptations)

  1. A co-opting: a commandeering, appropriation, or taking over.
    Synonyms:
    cooption
  2. A co-opting: an absorption or assimilation.
    • This book is a study of co-optation rather than counterculture, an analysis of the forces and logic that made rebel youth cultures so attractive to corporate decision-makers rather than a study of those cultures themselves. In doing so, it risks running afoul of what I will call the co-optation...1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    cooption

Questions about cooptations

What is cooptations the plural of?
Cooptations is the plural of cooptation.

Words near cooptations in the dictionary

  1. cooptate
  2. cooptated
  3. cooptates
  4. cooptating
  5. cooptation
  6. cooptations
  7. cooptative
  8. coopted
  9. cooptee
  10. coopting
  11. cooption

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