cooptation

[Fr. cooptation; Ital. coopt a zione: Sp. coopt a cion, from Lat. cooptatio =an electing into a body; coop to to elect into a body.] *1. The act of choosing or selecting; choice, selec IMG:content-0890.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The act of electing or a uming into a body or office by the members of that body, as, for example, when a person is elected fellow of a college or society by the existing body of fellows. two were chosen by suffrage, and three by co optation." Lewis: Cred. Early Roman Hist. co-or-dāin', v. t. [Pref. co- con =with, and 1. Of persons: The act of laboring together with Eng. ordain (q.v.).] To ordain or appoint together others for a common end; conjoint or concurrent or at the same time. labor or efforts. zealous and strenuous cooperation."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. vi. 2. Of things : Concurrence in producing the same effect or in promoting the common advantage. II. Political Economy: 1. Definition: The combined action of numbers of persons. It is of two kinds: simple cooperation, when several individuals help each other in the same employment, and complex cooperation, when they do so in different employments. 2. Hist .: The pioneer of cooperation in this country was Robert Owen For some details of his views and work see COMMUNISM Though his great philanthropic projects only partly succeeded, yet they suggested cooperation. Not that the idea was really new; it had been practiced to a limited extent in most countries. It is a form of partnership. It may be of two kinds, cooperation in production and coop