cooperative society

noun

1. a commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers Often shortened tocoopco-op

Example Sentences

Sometimes a farmer would give a sheep, and the local cooperative society provided the bread at half the cost of production.

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A cooperative society was formed and in two weeks shares were sold to the value of two thousand dollars.

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The cooperative society failed and every cent of the four thousand dollars of the cooperators was lost.

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The well-known Bury Cooperative Society was established in 1856.

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