From en.wiktionary.org:
[coopt]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [la] + [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [kōˈ-ŏptˌ]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To elect as a fellow member of a group , such as a committee .
2. To commandeer , appropriate or take over .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-906496-27-2 | title=Proud to be Flesh | chapter=2 | editors=Josephine Berry Slater; Pauline van Mourik Broekman
|passage=Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be CO-OPTED by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.}}
1. To absorb or assimilate into an establish ed group, movement, category, etc.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | title=Bobos in Paradise [: The New Upper Class and How They Got There] | author= 吴语: David Brooks (commentator) | publisher= [Simon & Schuster] | year=2000 | isbn=0-684-85378-7 | page=43 | pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bobosinparadisen0000broo/page/43/mode/1up
|passage=In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who CO-OPTED whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois CO-OPTED each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2016-07-07 | author=w:Alexis Petridis | title=Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime | journal=w:The Guardian | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/07/roisin-murphy-take-her-up-to-monto-review-album-pop-vision
|passage=Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had CO-OPTED Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes [...]}}
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en|co-optation |co-optative |co-option |co-optive}}
**** Translations
[elect as a fellow member]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
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[commandeer]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
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[absorb or assimilate]
- German: [de]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
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**** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]