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Definition of Co-option

1. Noun. The selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership).

2. Noun. The act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).

Definition of Co-option

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of cooption) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Co-option

co-occurs co-op co-operate co-operated co-operates co-operating co-operation co-operative co-operatively co-opetition

co-ops co-opt co-optation co-opted co-opting co-option (current term) co-options co-opts co-ordinate co-ordinated

co-ordinates co-ordinating co-ordination co-ordinational co-ordinator co-ordinators co-organizer co-original co-ossification co-ossify

Literary usage of Co-option

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"But this cleavage in politics, perpetuated by the co-option of new members by each constituent section separately—though it constantly distracted the ..."

2. Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program: Congressional edited by John Warner (2001)
"Without listing all of its merits, I will point out that the Go-Co option would have guaranteed the country access to a vaccine supply immune from the ..."

3. English Local Government: Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1922)
"A conclusive demonstration of the common acceptance during the eighteenth century of the oligarchical principle of self-election or co-option is afforded by ..."

4. Why Ireland is Not Free.: A Study of Twenty Years in Politics. by Timothy Michael Healy (1898)
"... business communication from the " Freeman and National Press" because his girlish vanity was slightly offended. Alderman Kernan's "co-option" gave rise ..."

5. Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid: From Saso to Sansco by Saleem Badat (1999)
"co-option referred to the attempt by the state to win the support of "a more ... Two important elements identified in the co-option strategy were ..."

6. Report of the Commissioners by Great Britain Royal Commission on Secondary Education (1893)
"Do they desire that those external members shall be nominated by co-option ?—No doubt some of them should be nominated by co-option. 14.905. ..."

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