cooperative

Pluralcooperatives

1. 1
   adjective

   Willing to help and work well together with other people.

   Like a teammate who passes the ball instead of keeping it to himself.

   The new student was friendly and cooperative with everyone in class.

   If you stay cooperative, the meeting will finish much faster.

   Similarhelpful, obliging, accommodating, willing, compliant

   Oppositeuncooperative, obstructive, unhelpful, unwilling

2. 2
   adjective

   Done together by two or more people working as a team.

   Like a relay race where each runner carries the baton part of the way.

   The two teams made a cooperative plan to clean up the park.

   Solving the puzzle was a cooperative effort by the whole family.

   Similarjoint, collaborative, shared, collective, combined

   Oppositeindividual, competitive

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A business that is owned and run by the people who work in it, buy from it, or live in it.

   Like a club where the members own the clubhouse together.

   They joined a cooperative to buy groceries at lower prices.

   The local cooperative is owned by the farmers who supply it.

   Similarco-op, collective

4. 4
   adjective

   Having to do with a business owned by its members.

   He works for the cooperative bank in his town.

   The cooperative model helped small farmers stay in business.

   Similarmutual

Showing meanings only. Show all 4