CO-OPT: Meaning and related words

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word co-opt:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

co-opt: Merriam-Webster
co-opt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
co-opt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
co-opt: Collins English Dictionary
co-opt: Vocabulary.com
Co-Opt, Co-opt, co-opt: Wordnik
co-opt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
co-opt: Wiktionary
co-opt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
co-opt: Dictionary.com
co-opt: Online Etymology Dictionary
co-opt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Co-opt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
co-opt: Rhymezone
co-opt: FreeDictionary.org
co-opt: Mnemonic Dictionary
co-opt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

co-opt: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)

co-opt: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from WordNet (

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▸ verb:  take or assume for one's own use ("He co-opted the criticism and embraced it")
▸ verb:  appoint summarily or commandeer ("The army tried to co-opt peasants into civil defence groups")
▸ verb:  choose or elect as a fellow member or colleague ("The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation")
▸ verb:  neutralize or win over through assimilation into an established group ("We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance")

Similar:

cooptate, induct, enlist, choose, join, adlect, incorporate, adopt, elect, carry over, more...

Opposite:

reject, exclude, disown, disavow, repudiate

Types:

appropriate, usurp, commandeer, expropriate, sequester, confiscate, embezzle, more...

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