1 [usuallybeforenoun] involving doing sth together or working together with others towards a shared aim:
Cooperative activity is essential to effective community work.
2 helpful by doing what you are asked to do:
Employees will generally be more cooperative if their views are taken seriously.
OPPUNCOOPERATIVE
3 [usuallybeforenoun] (business) owned and run by the people involved, with the profits shared by them:
a cooperative farm * The cooperative movement started in Britain in the 19th century.
cooperatively (BrE also co-operatively) adverb
noun a cooperative business or other organization:
agricultural cooperatives in India and China * The factory is now a workers' cooperative.
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