co-op
See also: Co-op, coop, Coop, .coop, and Coop.
English
Alternative forms
- coop
- coöp
Etymology
From cooperative, by shortening.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoʊˌɒp/
- Hyphenation: co‧op
Noun
co-op (plural co-ops)
- A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
- Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
- 1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., ISSN 0028-6729, page 25:
- Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]
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- Any shop owned by a cooperative.
- (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
Derived terms
- condop
Verb
co-op (third-person singular simple present co-ops, present participle co-oping or co-opping, simple past and past participle co-oped or co-opped)
- Synonym of cooperate
- 2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips:
- It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.
- 2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips:
Anagrams
- OPOC, POCO