cooperator
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cooperators
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a person or organization that cooperates with another or others in some action, such as a venture or project.
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a person or organization that practices economic cooperation or participates in a cooperative.
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(often pejorative) a person who cooperates or collaborates with a hostile agency or force.
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They’ve got one cooperator, but you can cross-examine the cooperator, who’s cooperating in hopes of a more lenient sentence.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026
Using a rented minivan, Quintero and the cooperator conducted six “recon” missions in Franco’s neighborhood, Del Rio testified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
"He is not a viable cooperator for the Fulton County D.A.,"
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
While Wang is the first cooperator to take the stand, jurors have so far heard from three other witnesses.
From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2023
Mr. Hale had acted, up to this time, earnestly with Noyes and Parris; and the letter shows that Mather had the sympathies and the interests of a cooperator with them, and in their "designs."
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
In his closing argument, defense attorney Brian Steel painted Hester, Jones and Grant as unreliable “snitches, cooperators, rats” seeking to secure a lighter sentence by implicating Banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Some models were designed to create a vortex, which, through its shear pattern, localized cooperators within a ring while pushing cheaters to the outer rim of the environment -- essentially localizing cooperation.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi suggested that "there are multiple cooperators" in the documents case because the indictment references two people's conversations.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
Throughout that year, Agent Miller and her team were also trying to recruit new cooperators.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
Because the American chestnut often occurs on dry ridges and upper slopes, especially where soil is thin and rock outcrops are frequent, the cooperators proceeded to plant the Asiatic chestnuts on similar "tough" sites.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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