co-operative

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Adjective

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co-operative (comparative more co-operative, superlative most co-operative)

  1. Alternative spelling of cooperative
    • 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
      The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. [] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
    • 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism[1], Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159:
      At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.
    • 1960 December, “The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:
      The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.

Derived terms

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Noun

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co-operative (plural co-operatives)

  1. Alternative spelling of cooperative
    • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242:
      In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste.

Further reading

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  • Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [3] retrieved on November 7, 2006