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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Choice; selection in general; mutual choice.
  2. n. Specifically Coöperative choice; election; especially, election to membership in a committee, board, or society by its existing members.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of cooptation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete The act of choosing; selection; choice.
  2. n. the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership). See co-opt{2}.
  3. n. the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership)
  2. n. the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent)

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