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Definition of Coopting
1. coopt [v] - See also: coopt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coopting
Literary usage of Coopting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... were close, self-coopting oligarchies, in no sense representative even of the
Protestant inhabitants. The situation was redeemed from impracticability, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... really Holland representative of the people of that province, but only я*"*
of the limited, sclf-coopting burgher aristocracies of dem'"* certain towns, ..."
3. Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia by Michael P. McCarthy (1987)
"On 18 March, the day after the select council had officially revived the bill,
Ashbridge met with Bringhurst in what seemed an attempt at coopting the ..."
4. Egypt's Bid for Arab Leadership: Implications for U.S. Policy by Gregory L. Aftandilian (1993)
"... or at least coopting pan-Arab plans, was clearly motivated by more than a
desire to wrest the leadership of the Arab bloc from Transjordan and ..."
5. Western Approaches to Eastern Europe by James F. Brown, Robert D. Hormats, William H. Luers (1992)
"followed cooperation, collaboration, and coopting. Even in Poland, where communist
rule was thinnest and most contested, there were over three ..."
6. Protectors Or Pretenders?: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa by Binaifer Nowrojee (2001)
"... of their organization, and several NGO activists suggested that his rise within
the justice ministry reflected the government's success in coopting him. ..."
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