cooperative

Etymology

adj

1. Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
   The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
   Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011). 30 November 2015, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, page 12
2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
   a cooperative game
   a cooperative business enterprise
3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.

noun

1. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
   The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.” 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153