define a cooperative
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cooperative adj. 1. Done in cooperation with others: a cooperative effort. 2. Marked by willingness to cooperate; compliant: a cooperative patient. 3. Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services: a cooperative department store; cooperative apartment buildings. n. 1. An enterprise or organization that is owned or managed jointly by those who use its facilities or services.
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cooperative Also called co-op, cooperative apartment. 1  a building owned and managed by a corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy individual units in the building. 2  an apartment in such a building. Compare condominium (defs 1, 2).
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- Cooperative advertising is the sharing of costs for locally placed advertising between a retailer or wholesaler and a manufacturer.
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- [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. 3. : relating to a business or organization that is owned and operated by the people who work there or the people who use its services. a cooperative store. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. adverb.
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Economic democracy Definition. A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
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Food cooperative The cooperative movement started in the 19th century and the first notable food cooperative was started in Rochdale, England by industrial weavers known as the Rochdale Pioneers. The origination of the modern cooperative movement began in the 1970s when many second wave cooperatives started.
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- The definition of Cooperative adopted by the Law and the character that is given to the new cooperatives (modern cooperatives): The proposed definition includes not only the essence of the traditional type of cooperatives,
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Housing cooperative Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family home ownership, condominiums and renting. The corporation is membership-based, with membership granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit.
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consortium -ti•a (-ʃi ə, -ti ə) 1. a combination, as of corporations, for carrying out a business venture requiring large amounts of capital. 2. association; partnership. 3. the right of husband and wife to companionship and conjugal intercourse with each other.
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What is a Cooperative? The International Cooperative Alliance is a world-wide association of cooperatives. The Statement of Cooperative Identity which it adopted in 1995 contains seven cooperative principles that are more socially-minded: Voluntary and Open Membership.
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collective farm collective farm definition. In socialist or communist countries, such as the former Soviet Union, a collective is a cooperative association of farmers who work land owned by the state but who own most of their own farm implements.
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Credit union caisse pop redirects here. For Caisse populaire Desjardins, the Quebec credit union, see Desjardins Group. A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members.
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Co-op Co-op. A non-profit organization in which the same people who own the company are insured by the company. Cooperatives can be formed at a national, state, or local level and can include doctors, hospitals, and businesses as member-owners. Co-ops will offer insurance through the Marketplace.
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Cooperative In short, a co-op can be defined as a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers..
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Cooperation Cooperation (sometimes written as co-operation or cooeperation) coöperation is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for their/common mutual, benefit as opposed to working in competition for selfish. benefit
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Cooperative Housing Cooperative Housing. An apartment building or a group of dwellings owned by a corporation, the stockholders of which are the residents of the dwellings. It is operated for their benefit by their elected board of directors. In a cooperative, the corporation or association owns title to the real estate.
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combine cartel, corporate trust, combine, trust - a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly.
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Cooperative A volunteer cooperative is a cooperative that is run by and for a network of volunteers, for the benefit of a defined membership or the general public, to achieve some goal. Depending on the structure, it may be a collective or mutual organization, which is operated according to the principles of cooperative governance.
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Food cooperative A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative. Food cooperatives are usually consumers' cooperatives where the decisions regarding the production and distribution of its food is chosen by its members. Food cooperatives follow the 7 Cooperative Principles and typically offer natural foods.
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Housing cooperative A housing cooperative is normally de facto non-profit, since usually most of its income comes from the rents paid by its residents (if in a formal corporation, then shareholders), who are invariably its members.
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Cooperative A second common form of cooperative federation is a cooperative union, whose objective (according to Gide) is to develop the spirit of solidarity among societies and... in a word, to exercise the functions of a government whose authority, it is needless to say, is purely moral..
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coop a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc. verb (used with object), co-oped or co-opped, co-oping or co-opping. 2. to place in a cooperative arrangement, especially to convert (an apartment or building) to a cooperative. adjective.
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Cooperative education Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a co-op, provides academic credit for structured job experience.Cooperative education is taking on new importance in helping young people to make the school-to-work transition, service learning, and experiential learning initiatives.his article is about combining classroom education and work experience. For the study and education about co-operative societies, see co-operative studies. For a classroom organization around academic and social learning experiences, see Cooperative learning.
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Defining the Cooperative The International Cooperative Alliance defines a cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. 1  Cooperatives may include:
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Forms of Home Ownership Cooperative (Co-op): A cooperative is a form of home ownership in which the occupants own shares in the entire property and possess the right to occupy their unit and sell it whenever they choose. Monthly “common charges” or “maintenance charges” are often levied.
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- A housing cooperative is a legal corporation. Members of the cooper-. ative live in the cooperative and run the cooperative—from organizing. social activities, to maintenance, to handling ﬁnances and landscaping. Members set the bylaws and elect, from among themselves, a board of. directors.