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Meaning of "cooption" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COOPTION

cooption  [kəʊˈɒpʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COOPTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cooption is a noun.
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.

WHAT DOES COOPTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Co-option

Co-option has two common meanings: ▪ the process of adding members to an elected or appointed group at the discretion of members of the body in order to fill vacancies, or to appoint additional members if permitted by the group's Constitution or rules. ▪ the process by which a group subsumes or assimilates a smaller or weaker group with related interests; or, similarly, the process by which one group gains converts from another group by attempting to replicate the aspects that they find appealing without adopting the full program or ideals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COOPTION


absorption
əbˈsɔːpʃən
assumption
əˈsʌmpʃən
caption
ˈkæpʃən
co-option
ˈkəʊɒpʃən
conception
kənˈsɛpʃən
consumption
kənˈsʌmpʃən
corruption
kəˈrʌpʃən
description
dɪˈskrɪpʃən
Egyptian
ɪˈdʒɪpʃən
exception
ɪkˈsɛpʃən
inscription
ɪnˈskrɪpʃən
option
ˈɒpʃən
perception
pəˈsɛpʃən
preoption
priːˈɒpʃən
prescription
prɪˈskrɪpʃən
readoption
ˌriːəˈdɒpʃən
reception
rɪˈsɛpʃən
redemption
rɪˈdɛmpʃən
subscription
səbˈskrɪpʃən
swaption
ˈswɒpʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COOPTION

cooperage
cooperate
cooperation
cooperationist
cooperative
cooperative apartment
cooperative bank
cooperative farm
Cooperative Party
cooperative society
cooperatively
cooperativeness
cooperativity
cooperator
cooperies
coopery
coopt
cooptation
cooptative

WORDS THAT END LIKE COOPTION

accreditation
adaption
adoption
adsorption
alcohol consumption
contraception
deception
disruption
encryption
energy consumption
eruption
exemption
inception
interception
interruption
job description
misconception
presumption
recaption
resumption
wedding reception

Synonyms and antonyms of cooption in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cooption» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COOPTION

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

Translator English - Chinese

联合选择
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cooptación
570 millions of speakers

English

cooption
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cooption
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

االحتواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кооптации
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cooptação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cooption
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cooptation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cooption
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kooptation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cooption
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cooption
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cooption
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cooption
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cooption
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोऑपशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cooption
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cooptazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kooptacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кооптації
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cooption
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cooption
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koöptering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cooption
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rekuperasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cooption

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COOPTION»

The term «cooption» is used very little and occupies the 155.759 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COOPTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cooption» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cooption» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COOPTION»

Discover the use of cooption in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cooption and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union (EPub)
The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime.
Hershel I. Grossman, Mr. Dmitry Gershenson, 2000
2
Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation
Cooption is a very valuable evolutionary tool and since the neural crest embodies an evolutionary novelty with significant implications for the formation of the vertebrate head, it could not escape from coopting genes already important in other ...
Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet, 2007
3
Genomic Regulatory Systems: In Development and Evolution
This chapter is about cooption at all levels of patterning gene networks, and about the kinds of cooptive processes that have been responsible for the evolution of new body parts during the divergence of the Bilateria. SOME EXAMPLES: ...
Eric H. Davidson, 2001
4
Structural Approaches to Sequence Evolution: Molecules, ...
Evolutionary processes of new forms and shapes are accomplished by cooption or recruitment of genes expressed. It is a process of forming a new regulatory network. It appears that associations of enhancer and transcription factor involve  ...
Ugo Bastolla, Markus Porto, Eduardo Roman, 2007
5
Cooption and Irreducibility in Regulatory Networks for ...
Genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) are biological control systems involved in the expression of genes and, in turn, the development of an organism.
Arockia Ranjitha Dhanasekaran, 2006
6
Community Leadership and Self-help Housing
Methods of control exercised by different forms of community−State relationship Cooption and incorporation 58. Cooption occurs where a leader affiliates with a supra−local organization thereby becoming subject to its orthodoxy, procedures ...
UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), 1988
7
Tumor Angiogenesis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Targeted ...
The differences between this and former studies needs to be clarified. 5.5 Cooption Manytumors developinhighlyvascularizedtissues,suchasbrainandlung. Inthese tissues,tumors can use another mechanism for vascularization, named cooption ...
Francis S. Markland, Stephen Swenson, Radu Minea, 2010
8
Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective ...
Cooption. Kranzberg's first law of technology states that: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral”[38]. By this, Kranzberg means that technology interacts with the social ecology in ways that are difficult to foresee or control.
Nik Bessis, Fatos Xhafa, 2011
9
Malaysian Politics Under Mahathir
standard repertoire: cooption, competitive institution-building, and the use of force. Mahathir's strategies: cooption, institution-building, coercion Mahathir made use of some well-known strategies, but there were some striking features in their ...
Diane K. Mauzy, R. S. Milne, 2002
10
Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from ...
twentv. three. Beyond. Cooption. and. Protest: Reflections. on. the. FEDUP. alternative. Mark Swilling Sophie Oldfield's chapter (Chapter 22) is a valuable contribution to the long and well-established South African discussion about state - civil ...
Mirjam Van Donk, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COOPTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cooption is used in the context of the following news items.
1
TDP bags MPP president post
The CPI candidate won the cooption member post with the support of the TDP, sources said. Tension prevailed near the venue of the election ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Oversized Water Pistols, Undersized Brains
But it's also impractical and betrays the paralyzing fear of cooption and the prevalent mistrust of organizations that's stifling progress in Armenia. «Armenian Weekly, Jul 15»
3
Listen: Do Intelligent Design Scientists Do Research?
... Nate Herbst and Casey Luskin talk about intelligent design research at Biologic Institute, where scientists are testing the cooption model of ... «Discovery Institute, Jun 15»
4
Report on One Year of the Modi Regime
Rather, an incremental balance of coercion and cooption is what is required—and the evidence of the first year of the Modi regime suggests ... «Mainstream, Jun 15»
5
Turkey won, Erdoğan lost
The AKP will try to maintain the patronage system Erdoğan helped establish while maintaining the cooption policy to neutralize opponents, ... «Today's Zaman, Jun 15»
6
Russia's Law on “Undesirable Foreign NGOs” and the Ethics of …
In light of The Professionalism Constraint international activists are morally required to prevent such cooption and usurpation, but the ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 15»
7
Compensatory angiogenesis and tumor refractoriness
In vessel cooption, the tumor cells embrace the local blood vessels of the host during the invasion of tumors in surrounding host tissue and ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
8
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica SA: The Company announces …
... May 27, 2015, has appointed Ms. Gema Góngora Bachiller, by cooption, with prior report of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee, ... «The Wall Street Transcript, May 15»
9
A paradox of multitrack
First, multitrack diplomacy can be turned into a form of cooption or “corporatism” when perceived by non-democratic states. Instead of ... «Jakarta Post, May 15»
10
The Decline of Pseudoscience
It's possible to share Michael Pollan's queasiness over the corporate cooption of “natural” out of snobbery and out of a noble rejection of ... «The New Republic, May 15»

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