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cooperative

In a cooperative effort, project, etc., a number of people work together to do something. Development of the machine became a cooperative effort between university and industry in the UK. If someone is cooperative, they listen and try to help or work with you. He was very hard to work with, but recently has become much more cooperative.

cooperative

A cooperative is a type of business that is owned by the people working there or by its customers. Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), a retail co-operative, is Canada's largest supplier of outdoor equipment and has more than two million members.

cooperative

(= concerted, conjunct, conjunctive) involving the joint activity of two or more concerted action the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind the conjunctive focus of political opposition a cooperative effort a united effort joint military activities 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 done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit a cooperative effort an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it (= accommodative) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

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Simple sentences

Tom wants to be cooperative.
You need to be a little more cooperative.
Tom is being very cooperative.
Tom has been extremely cooperative.
I hope Tom is cooperative.
Tom won't likely be cooperative.
Tom doesn't think Mary will be cooperative.
Why is Tom cooperative?
Tom said he thought Mary wasn't as cooperative as she should've been.
Mary isn't as cooperative as she used to be.
I'm cooperative.
Tom isn't cooperative.
Tom is quite cooperative.

Movie subtitles

A dairy cooperative would be a great help for you.
I declare the dairy cooperative officially started!
And the number of cooperative members increased.
And the dairy cooperative worked.
Don't even think of distributing the money of the cooperative!
How are we going to set up the bovine cooperative?
And so, the dairy cooperative evolved in a bovine cooperative.
Once overhead as above mentioned has been paid, the tractor will be delivered to the cooperative.
The bovine cooperative exists!
Thank you very much, gentlemen, for being such cooperative rabbits.
Herr Davos could have been more cooperative and died further away.
I needed a respectable fool and naturally I selected a man whose fear of death might make him extremely cooperative.
I'm not in the cooperative yet.
A cooperative Frenchman. a man who realizes full well where the future of France lies.
We have the plans for fortifications the devil himself couldn't breach. solid steel and concrete from Denmark to Spain. but I'm afraid our French friends aren't being as cooperative as they might be.
You're very cooperative, Mr. Smith.
I believe in being cooperative, Colonel.
Mr. Smith, I advise you to be cooperative.
I'm extremely grateful that you are both cooperative.
I must say, Harry, you're being very cooperative about this.
We are faced with a crisis, a crisis for which all the nations of the world, in unprecedented cooperative action, have found as yet no solution.
Well, you haven't been too cooperative.
You work for a cooperative or on your own?
Yes, for the cooperative.
From the cooperative!
A cooperative hen has just supplied the egg and the milk should be here any moment now.
You've been very cooperative.
And the green-painted cooperative where we bought our wine.
I should have known you wouldn't be cooperative. All right.
I think he should prove cooperative.
Mr Dobisch says you're loyal, cooperative, resourceful.
Loyal, resourceful, cooperative CC Baxter.
If we'd all be a little more quiet, cooperative, orderly.
I've never harmed the cooperative!
He can steal for the cooperative, not only for himself.
Cooperative, well liked.
Yes, they were extremely cooperative.

News and current affairs

And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.
Americans now view cooperative action on global climate change more favorably.
Shared water calls for flexible, continuous, cooperative water management, based on agreed-upon rights and responsibilities, as well as ongoing monitoring and dispute resolution mechanisms.
Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.
This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.
There are, of course, many other issues, some of which already receive intensive cooperative efforts, especially in the fields of combating organized crime, drug and human trafficking, and the cross-border flow of contraband.
Different traditions in tactical and strategic thinking also matter--to say nothing of the unique way Europeans forged their current cooperative arrangements out of aggressive nation-states that shared a common civilization.
Pragmatic, steady progress at the national and international levels in improving the regulatory architecture and increasing our collective ability to avoid non-cooperative behavior and suboptimal equilibria, is the best course to follow.
PARIS - We are little more than a decade into the twenty-first century, but a terrible precedent has already been set: all of the major international negotiations and cooperative efforts initiated in this century thus far have ended in failure.
But they can strive to shape a more cooperative future.
The magnitude of action by developing countries will largely depend on the effective delivery of finance and clean technology through international cooperative action.
China has now rejoined the world community as a cooperative, stable, and powerful sovereign nation, which will be one of the leading trading countries in the years ahead.
But the Belgians and Dutch have also been less than cooperative at times.
Belgium and the Netherlands need to resuscitate their cooperative efforts within the Benelux framework.
We have arrived at a moment in history when cooperative global political leadership is more important than ever.
An alternative would be to establish some form of cooperative or contract-based farm association that can negotiate fair prices.
If Deng were in charge today, he would lead China back to the cooperative relations with the US that marked early 2009.
Both the public and private sector throughout the region should take immediate measures to face up to this new competition and to work toward cooperative projects with the Chinese.
The decision to conduct collaborative research across multiple institutions resulted in the development of cooperative group research.
With an emerging infrastructure in place for cooperative research, sustained improvement in outcomes partly reflected an ever-increasing understanding that childhood cancers are diverse.
The effectiveness of such a cooperative approach was apparent in the Egypt-sponsored indirect talks with Israel.
Such deep theoretical conflicts have real-world consequences, as they impede constructive debate and cooperative action in crisis situations.
While the West and Russia still talk the talk of cooperative security in Europe, geopolitical competition for influence has been renewed in these regions.
The 66th session of the UN General Assembly is a renewed opportunity for the countries of the world to set aside narrow, short-term interests and commit to cooperative efforts to address humanity's long-term imperatives.
China's cooperative approach on Japanese imports was a response to Kan's ongoing effort to calm international concern about the safety of Japan's agricultural products.

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