cooperative

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Through its affiliations with Fairtrade, the cooperative is able to pay a guaranteed premium price to the farmers - higher than what the government is paying.

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  1. adjective Done in cooperation with others: a cooperative effort.
  2. adjective Marked by willingness to cooperate; compliant: a cooperative patient.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services: a cooperative department store; cooperative apartment buildings.

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  • Around him a handful of political refugees from Indonesia opened in 1982-with no means at their disposal but fortified with courage - an Indonesian restaurant cooperative, which is located in the Latin Quarter in Paris. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
  • Through its affiliations with Fairtrade, the cooperative is able to pay a guaranteed premium price to the farmers - higher than what the government is paying. —  IPS Inter Press Service
  • - (1) To carry out the provisions of this section for fiscal years after September 30, 1988, there shall be deposited into a special fund known as the cooperative endangered species conservation fund, to be administered by the Secretary, an amount equal to 5 percent of the combined amounts covered each fiscal year into the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund under section 3 of the Act of —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • Some of the businesses that work with the cooperative are the Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg where students do basic grounds and building maintenance, Artshirt where items are packed for shipping, McPherson Care Center where one student went on to become a certified nurses aide and the McPherson school district where students perform jobs such as parking lot monitor. —  The McPherson Sentinel Homepage RSS
  • For members of such a cooperative, the cost of medical treatment in real dollars might be as low as it was several decades ago. —  Social Memory Complex
 

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