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One of these was the co-optative power of management, illustrated by such euphemisms as associate and team member.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Such bodies may be purely co-optative, as the Royal Academy, or may be elective with power to add to the numbers by co-optation, as municipal corporations in England.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various