cooperative store

noun

1. a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.

2. a store operated by a farmers' cooperative organization or by a cooperative chain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cooperative store¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

So that we actually have a Black-led, Black owned cooperative store in the community.

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But as many Turks struggle with the rising cost of living, shoppers at one such cooperative store in Instanbul were sceptical.

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Retired 53-year-old Ayten Kar praised the cooperative store as she emerged from it with packets of coffee, describing it as "wallet friendly".

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The Red Paint Community Council has launched a community garden in Lodge Pole, near the southeast border of the reservation, and plans to open a cooperative store in January, Gone said.

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At about the same time as Friday's Samui bombing, a huge fire ripped through a cooperative store on the mainland of the same Surat Thani province.

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