"co-op" meaning in English

See co-op in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkoʊˌɒp/ Forms: co-ops [plural]
Etymology: From cooperative, by shortening. Etymology templates: {{m|en|cooperative}} cooperative Head templates: {{en-noun}} co-op (plural co-ops)
  1. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
    Sense id: en-co-op-en-noun-2MeYVX21
  2. Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
    Sense id: en-co-op-en-noun-KUIHo06x
  3. Any shop owned by a cooperative.
    Sense id: en-co-op-en-noun-6h2bQMAB
  4. (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch. Categories (topical): Board games, Video games
    Sense id: en-co-op-en-noun-mNi1-wHC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 14 12 49 4 Topics: video-games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: coop, coöp Derived forms: condop

Verb

IPA: /ˈkoʊˌɒp/ Forms: co-ops [present, singular, third-person], co-oping [participle, present], co-opping [participle, present], co-oped [participle, past], co-oped [past], co-opped [participle, past], co-opped [past]
Etymology: From cooperative, by shortening. Etymology templates: {{m|en|cooperative}} cooperative Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=co-opped|pres_ptc2=co-opping}} 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)
  1. Synonym of cooperate Synonyms: cooperate [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-co-op-en-verb-e7NsuyUl
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: coop, coöp

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for co-op meaning in English (5.6kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "condop"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cooperative"
      },
      "expansion": "cooperative",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cooperative, by shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-ops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "co-op (plural co-ops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "co‧op"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 23, Hugo Cox, “Upper East Side story”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 3",
          "text": "Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep."
      ],
      "id": "en-co-op-en-noun-2MeYVX21",
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ],
        [
          "apartment",
          "apartment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., →ISSN, page 25",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮(选本)], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360",
          "text": "In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province. Since then they have put in nearly a year’s intensive work in farm production, finishing up in the autumn with the distribution of the year’s harvest. Our Party has strengthened its political and ideological leadership over them in good time. As a result, the three co-ops have been put on a firm footing and are making considerable headway. They have created a good impression among the peasants outside the co-ops, who say, “The co-ops are doing better in every way than we!” These co-ops are really taking the lead on the road to co-operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives."
      ],
      "id": "en-co-op-en-noun-KUIHo06x",
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any shop owned by a cooperative."
      ],
      "id": "en-co-op-en-noun-6h2bQMAB",
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Board games",
          "orig": "en:Board games",
          "parents": [
            "Tabletop games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Computing",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 14 12 49 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch."
      ],
      "id": "en-co-op-en-noun-mNi1-wHC",
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "board game",
          "board game"
        ],
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ],
        [
          "deathmatch",
          "deathmatch"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "board games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkoʊˌɒp/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coop"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coöp"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "co-op"
  ],
  "word": "co-op"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cooperative"
      },
      "expansion": "cooperative",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cooperative, by shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-ops",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "co-opped",
        "pres_ptc2": "co-opping"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "co‧op"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips",
          "text": "It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of cooperate"
      ],
      "id": "en-co-op-en-verb-e7NsuyUl",
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperate",
          "cooperate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "cooperate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkoʊˌɒp/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coop"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "coöp"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "co-op"
  ],
  "word": "co-op"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "condop"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cooperative"
      },
      "expansion": "cooperative",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cooperative, by shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-ops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "co-op (plural co-ops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "co‧op"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 23, Hugo Cox, “Upper East Side story”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 3",
          "text": "Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ],
        [
          "apartment",
          "apartment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., →ISSN, page 25",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮(选本)], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360",
          "text": "In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province. Since then they have put in nearly a year’s intensive work in farm production, finishing up in the autumn with the distribution of the year’s harvest. Our Party has strengthened its political and ideological leadership over them in good time. As a result, the three co-ops have been put on a firm footing and are making considerable headway. They have created a good impression among the peasants outside the co-ops, who say, “The co-ops are doing better in every way than we!” These co-ops are really taking the lead on the road to co-operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any shop owned by a cooperative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ],
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Board games",
        "en:Video games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "board game",
          "board game"
        ],
        [
          "cooperative",
          "cooperative"
        ],
        [
          "deathmatch",
          "deathmatch"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "board games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkoʊˌɒp/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "coop"
    },
    {
      "word": "coöp"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "co-op"
  ],
  "word": "co-op"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cooperative"
      },
      "expansion": "cooperative",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cooperative, by shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "co-ops",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-oped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "co-opped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "co-opped",
        "pres_ptc2": "co-opping"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "co‧op"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips",
          "text": "It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of cooperate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cooperate",
          "cooperate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "cooperate"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkoʊˌɒp/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "coop"
    },
    {
      "word": "coöp"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "co-op"
  ],
  "word": "co-op"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.