Co-optation

Definition: Co-optation

Co-optation

Noun

1. The selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership).

2. The act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Co-optation

Books

• Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh: The Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance (reference)

• Labor-Management Committees: Confrontation, Co-Optation or Cooperation (Key Issues Series, No 29) (reference)

• Police-association and department leaders the politics of co-optation (reference)

• The Standing Commissions of the Supreme Soviet: Effective Co-optation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kooptim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محولة للعرض. (various references)

Czech

spoleèné volby. (various references)

Danish

selvsupplering (cooptation, co-option). (various references)

Dutch

coöptatie (cooptation). (various references)

French

cooptation (cooptation). (various references)

German

Kooption (cooptation), Kooptation (cooptation), Hinzuwahl (cooptation). (various references)

Greek 

σύστημα εισδοχής μελών με ψηφοφορία των υπαρχόντων μελών (co-optation system). (various references)

Hungarian

testület kiegészítése. (various references)

Italian

cooptazione (cooptation). (various references)

Manx

co-reih (co-opt). (various references)

Pig Latin

o-optationcay

Portuguese

cooptação (cooptation). (various references)

Romanian

cooptare. (various references)

Russian 

кооптация (cooptation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

saradnja (collaboration, cooperation). (various references)

Spanish

cooptación (cooptation). (various references)

Swedish

adjungering. (various references)

Thai

การเลือก (choice, election, option). (various references)

Turkish

seçme (choice, choosing, digest, eclectic, pick, picked, recherche, sampling, select, selection, spotting), atama (appointment, assignation, assignment, commission, cooptation, creation, designation, installation, installment, instalment, institution, investiture, investment, nomination, placement, posting, preferment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự kết nạp, sự bấu v� o. (various references)

Misspellings

"Co-optation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corotation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cooption, potation.

-3 letters: antipot, caption, paction, taction, topcoat.

-4 letters: action, atonic, atopic, cation, catnip, cotton, intact, octant, octopi, option, potato, potion, ptotic, tipcat.

-5 letters: actin, antic, attic, canto, capon, coapt, coati, conto, coopt, cotan, cotta, inapt, octan, ontic, optic, paint, panic, panto, patin, patio, piano, picot, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, potto, tacit, taint.

+3 letters: onomatopoetic, photoreaction.

+4 letters: contraposition, cooperationist, photoreactions, prognosticator.

+5 letters: contrapositions, cooperationists, photoexcitation, postinoculation, prognostication, prognosticators, radioprotection.