cooperative

«cooperative» in Mova's school dictionary: cooperative, you are willing to help and work together… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (cooperative, more cooperative, most cooperative); noun (a cooperative, cooperatives — also «co-op»)

meaning for a pupil

1) If you are cooperative, you are willing to help and work together with others and do what is asked. tree →

2) Cooperative work or play is done by people working together for the same goal. tree →

3) (noun) A cooperative is a business or farm owned and run by the people who work in it or use it, who share the profits. tree →

sense in the lessons

At school, cooperative learning means working in groups and helping each other; a cooperative game is one where everyone wins or loses together. In everyday life, a «co-op» can be a shop owned by its members, such as the Co-op in the UK. In stories, a cooperative character is helpful and easy to work with, while an uncooperative one is stubborn. Common phrases: «be cooperative», «cooperative game», «cooperative learning», «farmers' cooperative», «the Co-op».

examples

• The children were very cooperative and tidied up quickly. tree →
• We played a cooperative board game where we all had to stop the flood together. tree →
• The dentist said I was a cooperative patient. tree →
• The farmers formed a cooperative to sell their milk. tree →
• Nan buys her groceries at the Co-op. tree →
• The cat was not very cooperative when we tried to bath it. tree →
• A cooperative group shares the work fairly. tree →
• The police thanked the witness for being so cooperative. tree →

note

Also spelled «co-operative» (UK) and shortened to «co-op». The opposite is «uncooperative». The verb is «cooperate» and the noun for the action is «cooperation». Say co-OP-er-a-tive. A cooperative (noun) is countable: a cooperative, two cooperatives.

In the corpora

• Ollie's family plays cooperative games, where everyone works together against the game, and wins or loses together, so nobody sulks.
• In cooperative games the players work together against the game and win or lose as a team.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cooperative» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.