# cooperative

Pronunciation: say "koh-OP-er-uh-tiv" US /koʊˈɑpəɹətɪv/, UK /kəʊˈɒpəɹətɪv/

## Adjective

1. Willing to work with another person or as part of a team.
   - Simple: Willing to help and work well together with other people.
   - _The witness was fully cooperative, answering every question the detectives asked._
   - _A cooperative attitude from both sides made the negotiation surprisingly smooth._
2. Involving joint action or shared effort between individuals or parties.
   - Simple: Done together by two or more people working as a team.
   - _The research was a cooperative venture between three universities and a hospital._
   - _Cooperative farming let neighboring families share equipment and labor during the harvest._
4. Relating to a member-owned business or to member-owned businesses in general.
   - Simple: Having to do with a business owned by its members.
   - _The conference focused on cooperative governance and member voting rights._
   - _Cooperative banking expanded rapidly across rural regions in the early 1900s._

## Noun

3. A business owned partly or wholly by its employees, customers, or tenants.
   - Simple: A business that is owned and run by the people who work in it, buy from it, or live in it.
   - _The workers bought out the factory and turned it into a cooperative._
   - _Members of the housing cooperative vote on major repairs and the annual budget._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix "co-" combined with "operative."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cooperative (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).