cooperative

See also: coopérative, coöperative, co-operative, and co-öperative

English

Alternative forms

• co-operative, coöperative, co-öperative

Etymology

From co- +‎ operative.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/, /kɔˈɑp.ɹətɪv/, /kɔˈap.ɹətɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

cooperative (comparative more cooperative, superlative most cooperative)

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

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

   • 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     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).

2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.

   a cooperative game

   a cooperative business enterprise

3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.

Antonyms

• adversarial
• competitive

Derived terms

• Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Related terms

• cooperation
• cooperatively

Translations

ready to work with another

• Bulgarian: съвме́стен (bg) (sǎvmésten)
• Catalan: cooperatiu
• Dutch: samenwerkend (nl)
• Finnish: yhteistyökykyinen (fi), yhteistoiminnallinen, yhteistyöhaluinen
• French: coopératif (fr)
• Galician: cooperativo m
• German: kooperativ (de)
• Greek: συνεργάσιμος (el) (synergásimos)
• Hebrew: שתופי (he) (shitûfy)
• Hungarian: együttműködő (hu), segítőkész (hu), kooperatív (hu), kooperáló (hu)
• Italian: cooperativo (it)
• Latin: cooperātivus
• Manx: co-obbragh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samarbeidsvillig

• Portuguese: cooperativo, cooperante
• Russian: гото́вый к сотру́дничеству (gotóvyj k sotrúdničestvu), совме́стный (ru) (sovméstnyj), объединённый (ru) (obʺjedinjónnyj)
• Spanish: cooperativo (es)
• Swedish: samarbetsvillig (sv)
• Tagalog: matutulungin

involving cooperation

• Arabic: تَعَاوُنِيّ (taʕāwuniyy)

relating to a cooperative

• Bulgarian: кооперати́вен (kooperatíven)
• Catalan: cooperatiu
• Finnish: osuustoiminnallinen, yhteistoiminnallinen
• Galician: cooperativo m
• German: kooperativ (de), genossenschaftlich
• Greek: συνεταιριστικός (el) (synetairistikós)
• Hindi: सहकारी (hi) (sahkārī)
• Hungarian: szövetkezeti (hu)
• Kazakh: корпоративті (korporativtı), корпоративтік (korporativtık)
• Malayalam: സഹകരണ (sahakaraṇa)
• Manx: co-obbragh
• Portuguese: cooperativo
• Russian: кооперати́вный (ru) (kooperatívnyj)
• Swedish: kooperativ (sv)

Noun

cooperative (plural cooperatives)

2. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
   • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village‎^[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153:

     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.”

   • 1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13:

     Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

Derived terms

terms derived from noun or adjective

• anticooperative
• co-op
• cooperative federalism
• cooperative game
• cooperativeness
• cooperative principle
• cooperativism
• cooperativist
• cooperativity
• cooperativize
• noncooperative
• platform cooperative
• protocooperative
• uncooperative

Translations

type of company

• Armenian: կոոպերատիվ (hy) (kooperativ)
• Bulgarian: коопера́ция (bg) f (kooperácija), кооперати́в m (kooperatív)
• Catalan: cooperativa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作社 (zh) (hézuòshè)

• Czech: družstvo (cs) n
• Dutch: coöperatieve vennootschap f, coöperatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kooperativo
• Finnish: osuuskunta (fi)
• French: coopérative (fr) f
• German: Genossenschaft (de) f, Kooperative f
• Greek: συνεταιρισμός (el) m (synetairismós)
• Hungarian: szövetkezet (hu), (agricultural) termelőszövetkezet (hu), téesz (hu), tsz (hu)
• Indonesian: koperasi (id)
• Ingrian: kooperativa
• Italian: cooperativa (it) f
• Manx: co-obbragh m
• Polish: spółdzielnia (pl) f, kooperatywa (pl) f
• Portuguese: cooperativa (pt) f
• Romanian: cooperativă (ro) f
• Russian: кооперати́в (ru) m (kooperatív), това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кооперати́ва f

  Latin: kooperatíva (sh) f

• Spanish: cooperativa (es) f
• Swedish: kooperativ (sv) n
• Tagalog: kooperatiba, tangkilikan
• Thai: สหกรณ์ (th) (sà-hà-​gɔɔn)
• Vietnamese: hợp tác xã (vi)

Further reading

• cooperative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Adjective

cooperative

1. feminine plural of cooperativo

Noun

cooperative f

1. plural of cooperativa

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ko.ɔ.pɛ.raːˈtiː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.o.pe.raˈtiː.ve]

Adjective

cooperātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of cooperātīvus