co-operative: translation
co-operative co-op‧e‧ra‧tive [kəʊˈɒprətɪv ǁ koʊˈɑːp-] also cooperative noun [countable] COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS
also co-operative society a company, factory, or organization in which all the people working there own an equal share of it:
• Ten years ago a small group of woodworkers formed a co-operative.
• She founded the Maison Espérance, a co-operative dressmaking business.
agriˌcultural co-ˈoperative COMMERCE FARMING ORGANIZATIONS
a co-operative that brings together and sells the products produced by small farmers:
• Privately owned farms have replaced many agricultural co-operatives.
conˌsumers' co-ˈoperative COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS
a co-operative that buys goods from a wholesale co-operative and sells them in a shop.Any profit that it makes is divided between the members
ˈcredit co-ˌoperative also ˌsavings and ˈcredit co-ˌoperative COMMERCE FINANCE ORGANIZATIONS
a co-operative that lends money, collected from its members, at low rates of interest; = CREDIT SOCIETY:
• the Tokyo Shinkin bank, an Osaka-based credit co-operative
ˈhousing co-ˌoperative COMMERCE PROPERTY ORGANIZATIONS
in Britain, a co-operative that provides low-cost housing for people to rent:
• a complex of flats to be let by a housing co-operative
inˌdustrial co-ˈoperative COMMERCE MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS
an industrial company that is owned by its employees rather than by outside shareholders:
• The industrial co-operative is particularly unsuited to capital-intensive business.
ˈmarketing co-ˌoperative COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS
a co-operative where producers of a particular type of goods work together in order to sell them:
• a marketing co-operative in which more than 140 small local producers take part
ˈretail co-ˌoperative COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS
another name for consumers' co-operative
ˈwholesale co-ˌoperative COMMERCE ORGANIZATIONS
a co-operative owned by a number of consumer co-operatives that buys or produces large quantities of goods and supplies them to its members and to other co-operatives. The profit it makes is shared between the members according to the value of the stock they have bought