cooperative

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: co=op=er=a=tive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cooperative, adj. & n. (also co-operative)
--adj.
1 of or affording cooperation.
2 willing to cooperate.
3 Econ. (of a farm, shop, or other business, or a society owning such businesses) owned and run jointly by its members, with profits shared among them.
--n. a cooperative farm or society or business.

Derivative

cooperatively adv. cooperativeness n.

Etymology

LL cooperativus (as COOPERATE)

THESAURUS

cooperative

Bund, Rochdale cooperative, accompanying, accordant, acquiescent, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, alliance, amenable, amicable, answerable, ardent, assemblage, associate, associated, association, at one, at one with, axis, band, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, bloc, body, boutique, chain store, co-op, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coadunate, coalition, coefficient, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, college, collusive, combination, combine, combined, combining, commensal, commensurate, common, common market, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutual, compatible, compliant, concerted, concession, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, confederacy, confederation, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, conjoint, conniving, consentaneous, consentient, consenting, consilient, consistent, consonant, conspiratorial, consumer cooperative, content, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative society, coordinate, corps, correspondent, corresponding, council, countinghouse, country store, coworking, credit union, customs union, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, disposed, docile, eager, economic community, ecumenic, emporium, en rapport, enthusiastic, equivalent, establishment, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, federation, fellow, five-and-ten, forward, free trade area, friendly, game, gang, general, general store, group, grouping, harmonious, harmonized, house, in accord, in agreement, in common, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, in the mind, in the mood, inaccordance, inclined, inharmony, joint, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, league, like-minded, machine, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, meeting, minded, mob, mutual, neighborly, noncompetitive, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, parasitic, partnership, pliant, political machine, popular, positive, post, predisposed, prompt, prone, propitious, proportionate, public, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reciprocal, reconcilable, responsive, retail store, ring, salon, saprophytic, self-consistent, shop, social, socialistic, societal, society, store, supermarket, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tractable, trading post, unanimous, uncompetitive, uniform, union, unisonant, unisonous, united, uniting, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, well-affected, well-disposed, well-inclined, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, wholesale house, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

cooperative

Cooperation

N cooperation, coadjuvancy, coadjutancy, coagency, coefficiency, concert, concurrence, complicity, participation, union, additivity, combination, collusion, association, alliance, colleagueship, joint stock, copartnership, cartel, confederation, coalition, fusion, a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together, logrolling, freemasonry, unanimity, esprit de corps, party spirit, clanship, partisanship, concord, synergy, coaction, cooperating, in cooperation, in league, coadjuvant, coadjutant, dyed in the wool, cooperative, additive, participative, coactive, synergetic, synergistic, favorable to, unopposed, as one, shoulder to shoulder, synergistically, cooperatively, due teste valgono piu che una sola.