cooperative

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsco-op

   Broadercommercial enterprise
2. 2.

   an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it

   Broaderassociation

Other forms of cooperative

plural

cooperatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cooperative

What does cooperative mean?

cooperative means "involving the joint activity of two or more". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cooperative?

cooperative has 5 syllables: co-o-pe-ra-tive. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /koʊˈɑpɚˌeɪtɪv/.

What is another word for cooperative?

Close synonyms include concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, accommodative, co-op. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cooperative?

The recorded antonyms are uncooperative.

Is cooperative a common word?

cooperative is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cooperative?

5 words rhyme with cooperative. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.