Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - co-operative

also cooperative (co-operatives) 1. A co-operative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits. (BUSINESS) They decided a housing co-operative was the way to regenerate Ormiston Crescent... The restaurant is run as a co-operative. = collective N-COUNT 2. A co-operative activity is done by people working together. He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth co-operative effort between Egyptian and US authorities... ADJ: usu ADJ n • co-operatively They agreed to work co-operatively to ease tensions wherever possible. ADV: ADV after v 3. If you say that someone is co-operative, you mean that they do what you ask them to without complaining or arguing. I made every effort to be co-operative. = obliging ADJ