cooperative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit

   a cooperative effort

2. 2
   adj

   Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.

   The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.

3. 3
   adj

   Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.

   a cooperative game

4. 4
   noun

   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.”

5. 5
   adj

   willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

6. 6
   adj

   involving the joint activity of two or more

7. 7
   noun

   a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners

8. 8
   noun

   an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it

Etymology

From co- + operative.