co-operative

co-operative (comparative more co-operative, superlative most co-operative)

1. Alternative spelling of cooperative
   • 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:

     The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.

   • 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism‎^[1], Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159:

     At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.

   • 1960 December, “The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:

     The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.

co-operative (plural co-operatives)

1. Alternative spelling of cooperative
   • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition‎^[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242:

     In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste.

• Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [3] retrieved on November 7, 2006