COOPERATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooperative mean? 

• COOPERATIVE (noun)
  The noun COOPERATIVE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: COOPERATIVE used as a noun is rare.

• COOPERATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective COOPERATIVE has 3 senses:

1. involving the joint activity of two or more

2. done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit

3. willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

  Familiarity information: COOPERATIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOPERATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

co-op; cooperative

Hypernyms ("cooperative" is a kind of...):

commercial enterprise (an enterprise connected with commerce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cooperative" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

• COOPERATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving the joint activity of two or more

Synonyms:

concerted; conjunct; conjunctive; cooperative

Context example:

joint military activities

Similar:

joint (united or combined)

Derivation:

cooperate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit

Context example:

a cooperative effort

Similar:

collaborative (accomplished by collaboration)

synergetic; synergistic (working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect)

Also:

helpful (providing assistance or serving a useful function)

Antonym:

uncooperative (unwilling to cooperate)

Derivation:

cooperate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

cooperativeness (the trait of being cooperative)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

Synonyms:

accommodative; cooperative

Similar:

noncompetitive (not involving competition or competitiveness)

Derivation:

cooperativeness (the trait of being cooperative)

 Context examples 

Image quality that would be expected routinely when imaging cooperative patients.

(Diagnostic Quality, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical trials carried out by cooperative groups are sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and large numbers of patients take part in many locations.

(Clinical Trials Cooperative Group, NCI Dictionary)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Alzheimer's disease cooperative study-clinical global impression of change questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire ADCS-CGIC Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the Alzheimer's disease cooperative study-clinical global impression of change questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire ADCS-CGIC Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the kind of document identifier Example: sponsor protocol number, national number, cooperative group protocol number, CDISC protocol identifying number, registry identifier

(Document Identifier Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The cooperative action of Ras, Rac and Rho to induce Cyclin D1 expression is a key component of oncogenic transformation.

(G1 to S Transition Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An NCI-sponsored clinical trials cooperative group of individuals and institutions dedicated to controlling cancer among children and adolescents.

(Pediatric Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Comprehensive Cancer Centers are expected to initiate and conduct early-phase, innovative clinical trials and to participate in the NCI's cooperative groups by providing leadership and recruiting patients for trials.

(NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical trials cooperative group supported by the NCI.

(National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Formation of a STAT3/SMAD1 complex, bridged by p300, mediates cooperative signaling of LIF and BMP2 and induction of astrocytes from neuronal progenitors.

(Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, NCI Thesaurus)