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co-operative en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cooperative.
   alt of cooperative
   • The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides. 1960 December, “The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:
   • At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique. 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159:
   • The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction. 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:

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co-operative en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cooperative.
   alt of cooperative
   • On the Chinese vessel were Piao Heng-shun and Chu Chang-shun, staff members of rural credit co-operatives in the Hsialuho people's commune in Kuantien County, Liaoning Province. 1972 March 13 [1972 March 13], “PRC-DPRK Friendship Depicted in Yalu River Incidents”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 50, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service and Shenyang, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: International Affairs, page A 2:
   • In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste. 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242:

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