Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
co-optation .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
cooption .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership)
- noun the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent)
Etymologies
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Examples
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"It's called co-option -- you become part of the system when you make a deal with them," said Mike Saulenas, 60, a member of the group.
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At a recent EGM he handed over the proxy for his votes to the North London Valiants, who – with the weight of Williams's equity behind them – forced the co-option of Mark Sims as a Vale director.
Phil Jones deal shows Fifa new rule drives up price of English talent
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It will then propose for co-option some of the English game's most respected figures, such as Manchester United's FA board member, David Gill, or the retired former referee David Elleray.
Sir Roy Gardner and co-investors spent £3m in support for doomed Pilgrims
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Wested Interests use co-option of specific sub-classes of the Polity to advance their own agenda -- classic Politics.
A Case for Paternalism?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They are there to trouble what ought to be most certain to human life by suggesting that something will always elude co-option into the clear-cut or the fenced-in.
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But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
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But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
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While there are certainly obvious dangers lurking in organized religion, such as interpreting certain passages of Holy books to justify slavery, prejudice and violence towards women, Fela's co-option of some of those very same beliefs in his own relationships male dominance, child molestation, polygamy and domestic abuse while repudiating the rest, is blatant hypocrisy.
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RTH: But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
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While there are certainly obvious dangers lurking in organized religion, such as interpreting certain passages of Holy books to justify slavery, prejudice and violence towards women, Fela's co-option of some of those very same beliefs in his own relationships male dominance, child molestation, polygamy and domestic abuse while repudiating the rest, is blatant hypocrisy.
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