cooperative store
Americannoun
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a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
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a store operated by a farmers' cooperative organization or by a cooperative chain.
Etymology
Origin of cooperative store
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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So that we actually have a Black-led, Black owned cooperative store in the community.
From Slate ● May 19, 2022
But as many Turks struggle with the rising cost of living, shoppers at one such cooperative store in Instanbul were sceptical.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2021
Retired 53-year-old Ayten Kar praised the cooperative store as she emerged from it with packets of coffee, describing it as "wallet friendly".
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2021
With their Spartan husbands, they operate a cooperative store that has cut food prices 8 to 10%, saves the wives a mile walk to the nearest grocer or butcher.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been running a cooperative store in the Transkei which he was soon to give up to become an editor of the weekly New Age.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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