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- noun Plural form of
cooperator .
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Examples
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So today, Ashcroft will launch a so-called cooperators program.
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In this scenario, yeast that secrete invertase are known as cooperators, while those that don't secrete invertase and instead consume the simple sugars produced by others are called cheaters.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In this scenario, yeast that secrete invertase are known as cooperators, while those that don't secrete invertase and instead consume the simple sugars produced by others are called cheaters.
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U.S. District Judge James Ware of S.n Jose, Calif., didn't allow Parrella and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Fazioli to call their cooperators at trial, though, because they had nothing to do with Lee and Ge's specific conduct.
Law.com - Newswire 2009
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In this scenario, yeast that secrete invertase are known as cooperators, while those that don't secrete invertase and instead consume the simple sugars produced by others are called cheaters.
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His sources were described as "cooperators" and his effort was termed "commercially gathered" data, rather than intelligence collection.
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His sources were described as "cooperators" and his effort was termed "commercially gathered" data, rather than intelligence collection.
The Daily Star > Politics David Ignatius 2010
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Obviously, this still requires people to be quasi-cooperators and not total free-riders.
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There were court-authorized wire taps, and thousands of conversations were recorded by what the FBI official called "cooperators."
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Fortunately, empirical evidence demonstrates that economists misunderstand human nature, since the majority of subjects in public goods experiments are not free riders but "conditional cooperators," willing to contribute as long as everybody else does, too.
Eric Schoenberg: The Hypocritical Oath? Eric Schoenberg 2011
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