cooperative society

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Lichen is not a plant at all but a cooperative society of algae and fungi.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

These findings put a frame around the cooperative society that has lately emerged in Houston: It is a beautiful anomaly, a liquid note of silver momentarily liberated from its sheath of rust.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

To expand their group of workers and supporters, the cooperative society established a newspaper, the Altrurian, to share news about their progress nationwide.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2017

Individuals huddled for warmth, fed one another, and guarded their groups from danger, all seeming to be cogs in a larger cooperative society.

From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2011

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

From Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State by Consumers' League of New York, The