co-opted

co-opt (k

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tr.v. co-opt·ed, co-opt·ing, co-opts

1. To elect as a fellow member of a group.

2. To appoint summarily.

3. To take or assume for one's own use; appropriate: co-opted the criticism by embracing it.

4. To neutralize or win over (an independent minority, for example) through assimilation into an established group or culture: co-opt rebels by giving them positions of authority.

[Latin cooptre : co-, co- + optre, to choose.]

co-op·tation n.

co-opta·tive (-t

-t

v) adj.

co-option (-

n) n.

co-optive adj.

co-opt - "To select (someone) for a group or club by a vote of members," it is from Latin cooptare, "to choose as a colleague or member of one's tribe"; its sense of "take over" came by 1953.

See also related terms for vote.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Verb	1.	co-opt - choose or elect as a fellow member or colleague; "The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation" elect - select by a vote for an office or membership; "We elected him chairman of the board"
	2.	co-opt - neutralize or win over through assimilation into an established group; "We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance" neutralize - make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"
	3.	co-opt - appoint summarily or commandeer; "The army tried to co-opt peasants into civil defence groups" appoint, constitute, name, nominate - create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee"
	4.	co-opt - take or assume for one's own use; "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it" accept, take - make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"

Translations

co-opt [kəʊˈɒpt] VT to co-opt sb (onto sth) → nombrar(como miembro)a algn(para algo)

co-opt [kəʊˈɒpt] vt

(= bring on board) → coopter
to co-opt sb as sth → coopter qn en qualité de or en tant que qch
to co-opt sb onto a committee → coopter qn pour faire partie d'un comité
to co-opt sb into sth [+ government, group] → coopter qn à qch

(= adopt) [+ slogan, policy] → récupérer

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Regarding Co-Opted Members for Inspection Committee, it was decided that the Inspection Committee has to be accompanied by co-opted members for the relevant disciplines for which a college/institution is seeking affiliation.

KMU announces inspection schedule of medical colleges, health ... by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)

PROFESSOR David Silk, who marginally lost his place on the Racehorse Owners Association Council after the elections in June, has been co-opted back to the council, writes Andrew Scutts.

Silk co-opted back on to ROA council by The Racing Post (London, England)

of Minnesota) explores the relationship between discourses of science, nationalism, and modernity in Imperial Japan, particularly focusing on competing promotions of science amongst Japanese technology-bureaucrats, Marxist intellectuals, and popular science writers engaged in the developing the new genre of popular science (tsuzoku kagagku) journalism and how those competing visions were eventually co-opted and mobilized by the Imperial state in support of wartime objectives.

Science for the empire; scientific nationalism in modern Japan by SciTech Book News

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