{
    "term": "cooperative",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "involving doing something together or working together with others towards a shared aim",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Cooperative activity is essential to effective community work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The documentary was a cooperative effort by film-makers from five countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a cooperative venture with the University of Copenhagen."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "helpful by doing what you are asked to do",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Employees will generally be more cooperative if their views are taken seriously."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "owned and run by the people involved, with the profits shared by them",
            "labels": "(business)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a cooperative farm"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cooperative movement started in Britain in the nineteenth century."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɒpərətɪv/",
                "audio": "co/cooperative/cooperative__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɑːpərətɪv/",
                "audio": "co/cooperative/cooperative__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from late Latin cooperativus, from Latin cooperat- ‘worked together’, from the verb cooperari, from co- ‘together’ + operari ‘to work’."
}