cooperatives

as inassociation
as inorganization
as inpartnership
as intenement
as incollective farm
as inwarehouse store
as incommune
as infactory
as inapartment

Synonyms for cooperatives

noun group with common interest or pursuit

Antonyms for cooperatives

Word Origin & History

also co-operative, c.1600, from Late Latin cooperat-, past participle stem of cooperari (see cooperation) + -ive. Political economy sense is from 1808, from the pre-Marx communist movement. The noun meaning "a cooperative store" is from 1883; meaning "a cooperative society" is from 1921.

Example Sentences for cooperatives

Closely akin to the cooperatives, and of much older origin, were the Zemstvos.

In these brief stories are written a hundred lessons that cooperatives should heed.

Like other cooperatives, the cafeteria has found the need for expert and trained workers in place of the hard-pressed volunteer.

A third significant development is the adoption by cooperatives of the best methods of management and accounting.

Cooperatives appealed to Susan as they did to many labor leaders as the best means of freeing labor.

Furthermore, unions and other associations may be formed within public organizations and cooperatives.

There is no longer any excuse for cooperatives to follow the blind into the pit.

Until this had been done the cooperatives had small chance of succeeding.