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

In these words is a rule of conduct that all of us—artists or artisans brokers or clerks, men or women—might well walk by toward the light of a more beautiful and cooperative society.

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