cooperatives
- 1Plural of cooperative.
Worker-owned cooperatives distribute profits among their members rather than outside shareholders.
The region's credit cooperatives offered loans at lower rates than commercial banks.
Note
Only the noun can be made plural: the company owned partly or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants. The adjective, meaning ready to cooperate or involving cooperation, never takes an -s in English, so the plural form always names organizations, never attitudes. Before another noun the singular form returns even when many are meant: cooperative housing, cooperative banks, never cooperatives housing.
cooperatives is a form of cooperative
cooperative, noun: A business owned partly or wholly by its employees, customers, or tenants. Full entry
- Forms
- cooperativecooperatives plural
- Spelling
- cooperative → cooperatives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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