Cooperative

/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
4. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.

Example Sentences

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

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).

a cooperative game

a cooperative business enterprise

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.”

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

Synonyms for cooperative

Antonyms for cooperative

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Word Forms

• more cooperative
• most cooperative
• co-operative
• coöperative
• co-öperative
• cooperatives

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