Meaning

4 senses
  1. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.

  2. Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.

    co-op advertisement

  3. Any shop owned by a cooperative.

  4. A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.

More definitions
  • a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners

Origin

From cooperative, by shortening.

From cooperative, by shortening.

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Forms

plural: co-ops
Singularco-op
Pluralco-ops

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners:cooperative

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcondop

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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