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I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.
Willard Boyle

Meaning of "cooperative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COOPERATIVE

cooperative  [kəʊˈɒpərətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COOPERATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cooperative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COOPERATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative or co-operative is an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit. Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use its services or by the people who work there or by the people who live there, hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives. The International Co-operative Alliance was the first international association formed by the movement. It includes the World Council of Credit Unions. A second organization was formed later in Germany, the International Raiffeisen Union. In the United States, the National Cooperative Business Association serves as the sector's oldest national membership association.

Definition of cooperative in the English dictionary

The first definition of cooperative in the dictionary is willing to cooperate; helpful. Other definition of cooperative is acting in conjunction with others; cooperating. Cooperative is also owned collectively and managed for joint economic benefit.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COOPERATIVE


collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
commemorative
kəˈmɛmərətɪv
corporative
ˈkɔːpərətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
evaporative
ɪˈvæpərətɪv
incorporative
ɪnˈkɔːpərətɪv
inoperative
ɪnˈɒpərətɪv
interoperative
ˌɪntərˈɒpərətɪv
non-cooperative
nɒnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv
noncooperative
ˌnɒnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv
nonoperative
ˌnɒnˈɒpərətɪv
operative
ˈɒpərətɪv
postoperative
pəʊstˈɒpərətɪv
preoperative
priːˈɒpərətɪv
recuperative
rɪˈkuːpərətɪv
separative
ˈsɛpərətɪv
temperative
ˈtɛmpərətɪv
uncooperative
ˌʌnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv
unoperative
ʌnˈɒpərətɪv
vituperative
vɪˈtjuːpərətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COOPERATIVE

cooped up
cooper
Cooper Creek
Cooper pair
Cooper´s hawk
cooperage
cooperate
cooperation
cooperationist
cooperative apartment
cooperative bank
cooperative farm
Cooperative Party
cooperative society
cooperatively
cooperativeness
cooperativity
cooperator
cooperies
coopery

WORDS THAT END LIKE COOPERATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
comparative
conservative
creative
cumulative
derivative
illustrative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
qualitative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of cooperative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COOPERATIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cooperative» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cooperative

Translation of «cooperative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COOPERATIVE

Find out the translation of cooperative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cooperative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cooperative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

合作性组织
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cooperativa
570 millions of speakers

English

cooperative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहकारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعاونية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кооператив
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cooperativa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমবায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coopérative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Koperasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Genossenschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

協同組合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

협동조합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pengusaha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hợp tác xã
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூட்டுறவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहकारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kooperatif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cooperativa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spółdzielczy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кооператив
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de cooperare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνεταιρισμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koöperatiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kooperativ
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

samarbeid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cooperative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COOPERATIVE»

The term «cooperative» is very widely used and occupies the 1.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COOPERATIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cooperative

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10 QUOTES WITH «COOPERATIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cooperative.
1
Paul Bloom
It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.
2
Willard Boyle
I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.
3
John O. Brennan
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.
4
Kent Conrad
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
5
Arthur Potts Dawson
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
6
Stockwell Day
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
7
Alexander Dubcek
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
8
Martin Filler
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
9
John Grierson
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
10
Gary Gygax
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COOPERATIVE»

Discover the use of cooperative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cooperative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cooperative Communications and Networking: Technologies and ...
Cooperative Communications and Networking: Technologies and System Design provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental concepts of cooperative communications and relays technology to enable engineers, researchers or graduate ...
Y.-W. Peter Hong, Wan-Jen Huang, C.-C. Jay Kuo, 2010
2
Cooperative Learning in Higher Education: Across the ...
If you ve been interested in cooperative learning, but wondered how it would work in your discipline, this book provides the necessary theory, and a wide range of concrete examples.Experienced users of cooperative learning demonstrate how ...
Barbara Millis, 2012
3
Cooperative Learning in the Classroom
Explains what cooperative learning is, describes what makes it work, and provides strategies for the classroom teacher beginning to use cooperative learning or improving the use of cooprative learning in the classroom.
David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Edythe Johnson Holubec, 1994
4
Cooperative learning: increasing college faculty ...
Explains cooperative learning, its success as a learning tool, and techniques for its most effective use. Topics includes the cooperative lecture, base groups, and cooperation among faculty.
David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Karl A. Smith, 1991
5
Cooperative Learning in Physical Education: A Research-based ...
This book defines Cooperative Learning in physical education and examines how to implement Cooperative Learning in a variety of educational settings. It explores Cooperative Learning in physical education from three main perspectives.
Ben Dyson, Ashley Casey, 2012
6
Cooperative Games and Sports: Joyful Activities for Everyone
Provides directions for games based on cooperation rather than competition, including indoor and outdoor games, games for special-education classes, and games for children and adults.
Terry Orlick, 2006
7
Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation ...
Explains why powerful educational innovations like "cooperative learning" do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms.
Evelyn Jacob, 1999
8
Cooperative Communications
Cooperative Communications reviews progress in cooperative communication networks.
Gerhard Kramer, Ivana Marić, Roy D. Yates, 2007
9
Axioms of Cooperative Decision Making
This book provides a unified and comprehensive study of welfarism, cooperative games, public decision making, and voting and social choice theory.
Hervi Moulin, 1991
10
Cooperative Communications: Hardware, Channel and PHY
LTE/WiMAX, WSN Discusses latest wireless channel models for transparent and regenerative protocols Addresses the fundamentals as well as latest emerging PHY protocols Introduces transparent distributed STBC, STTC, multiplexing and ...
Mischa Dohler, Yonghui Li, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COOPERATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cooperative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Coffee Shop Becomes Worker Owned Cooperative
“It is a new thing and we're excited to be bringing that thing here and already there has been talk of other cooperative ventures starting, so it's ... «FOX 21 Online, Jul 15»
2
Cooperative behaviour is not instinctive, but learnt
Cooperative behaviour is not an instinctive impulse or deliberate choice, but a learning process. Researchers of CWI and LUISS Guido Carli in ... «Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Jul 15»
3
Cooperative Offers Solution In West Denver Food Desert
DENVER (CBS4) – The Westwood Food Cooperative is not scheduled to open until 2016, but right now residents can buy memberships that ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
4
AARP, Cooperative Extension Service partner for caregivers
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - AARP Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service are teaming up to help thousands of family ... «KTUL, Jul 15»
5
Valley Wide Cooperative absorbs Valley Co-Ops' nine stores
Farmer-owned Valley Wide Cooperative expanded its presence in southern Idaho after merging with Valley Co-Ops and its nine Magic Valley ... «The Idaho Statesman, Jul 15»
6
A cooperative approach to mapping the marine world
Following last year's success, the EU-funded FIXO3 project has launched a second call offering marine researchers the chance to use 15 ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
7
Solar Cooperative meeting Sunday at Denison
GRANVILLE – The Licking County Solar Cooperative will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12, at Denison University's Burton Morgan Hall, 100 W. «The Newark Advocate, Jul 15»
8
Cornell Cooperative Extension sets meeting regarding harmful algal …
For more information, contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cayuga County at (315) 255-1183, ext. 229. Copyright 2015 Auburn Citizen. «Auburn Citizen, Jul 15»
9
N-Dimension Selected by Central Florida Electric Cooperative
N-Dimension, the leader in innovative cybersecurity solutions protecting distributed smart energy networks from cyber threats, today ... «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jul 15»
10
Freese to Manage Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association
The Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association has named its next statewide manager. Stephen Freese of Dodgeville will replace Share ... «Wisconsin Ag Connection, Jul 15»

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