Co-op

Quick meaning: Co-op is a noun meaning Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.

Meaning

Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.

More Meanings

1. Any shop owned by a cooperative.
2. (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
3. Synonym of cooperate.
4. (gaming, ambitransitive) To play a game in a cooperative style.
5. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.

Example Sentences

Oh, you have this game too? We should co-op some time.

It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.

Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]

Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.

Word Forms

• co-ops
• coop
• co-oping
• co-opping
• co-oped
• co-opped

Synonyms for co-op

Depending on context, synonyms include cooperate, cooperative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cooperative, cooperation, collaborative, union, co-operative, supportive.

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