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- noun UK, informal, dated Any of very many
shops belonging to the Cooperative Retail Society
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Examples
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Admittedly, the Co-op is a tough brief but arguably not as difficult as selling face cream to rugby league fans, or "hydra-energetic anti-fatigue moisturiser", as the potion being flogged on Saturday styles itself.
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Co-op two examples of the same thing, with progressively different advertising logos assigned to try and give the public a different opinion .....
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Early this year, across North and South Dakota, four Intertribal Co-op Health Hospital storage facilities were hit, and their inventory of OxyContin was stolen.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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From anywhere in the island, you can reach a pub, a cafe or a late-opening Co-op in 20 minutes.
Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011
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Co-op boards of some apartment buildings in New York City say they are contemplating switching.
'Linsanity' a Dunk for MSG Shalini Ramachandran 2012
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And I agree, the Co-op crap is code word for Public Option.
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Meg Hillier MPChair, parliamentary group of Co-op MPs• Robert Philpot of Progress says he does not support the sell-off of public services Letters, 15 April, but favours mutuals.
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Co-op: Nonprofit health cooperatives, or "co-ops," are being proposed as an option to compete with the private sector and as an alternative to a government-sponsored public health insurance option.
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Co-op, another way of having the uninsured remain uninsured.
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If it had been Co-op or some other solution, they would have opposed that too.
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