Crossword clues for co-opt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
co-opt \co-opt"\, coopt \co*["o]pt"\, v. t. [See Co["o]ptate. Cf. F. coopter.] To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.]
Each of the hundred was to co["o]pt three others.
--Jowett
(Thucyd.).
2. To choose or elect as a colleague or fellow member of a group; as, The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation.
3. To assimilate (a smaller group) into a larger group.
4. To persuade an opponent to join one's own side.
5. To appoint summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).
6. To appropriate (something rightly belonging to another) as one's own; to preempt; as, to co-opt someone's name.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "to select (someone) for a group or club by a vote of members," from Latin cooptare "to elect, to choose as a colleague or member of one's tribe," from com- "together" (see com-) + optare "choose" (see option (n.)). For some reason this defied the usual pattern of Latin-to-English adaptation, which should have yielded *cooptate. Sense of "take over" is first recorded c.1953. Related: Co-opted; co-opting.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. 2 To commandeer, appropriate or take over. 3 To absorb or assimilate into an established group. vb. 1 To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. 2 To commandeer, appropriate or take over. 3 To absorb or assimilate into an established group.
WordNet
v. choose or elect as a fellow member or colleague; "The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation"
neutralize or win over through assimilation into an established group; "We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance"
appoint summarily or commandeer; "The army tried to co-opt peasants into civil defence groups"
take or assume for one's own use; "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it"
Usage examples of "co-opt".
This was a calculated decision to co-opt the Belgian elite who had led the revolt against the Austrians and avoid alienating the majority of the population by extending French anticlericalism to one of the most fervently pious Catholic populations in Europe.
American commercial culture co-opted the counterculture of communes and simple living, commodifying dissent, and selling it back to the dissenters.
Mick had co-opted, had fucked him over, which, knowing Watanabe, he seriously doubted, or the minidisc had somehow been intercepted and switched.
He had meant to start teaching Sonny blacksmithing, but during the evening Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.
Until this law, pontifices and augurs were co-opted by the College members.
He got co-opted into a local taskforce and they tried to take the guy down at his marina.
The source of fear may be located in the imagination, but the process of feeling scared inevitably co-opts the resources of the whole body.
Then Ngomo starts his plotting and is discovered by Coydt, but instead of stamping on him she co-opts him.
Boyd co-signed Littell’s Pension Fund hard-on--which meant at least an outside chance at co-opting big money.
Meanwhile, Mamoulian's zombie associate Breer -- The Razor Eater -- lurks threateningly in the background, and a pair of comic relief American evangelists are co-opted into the service of Evil.
Co-opting the Greek Orthodox is something you'll have to do in any case.
Insect life cycles continually affirm the possibilities of radical difference -- even if ants and bees would co-opt this difference into the homogenizing mold of the State.
He'd seen a great-uncle who had long ago gone up the ladder to success, the ladder they kept pushing Ross up, had seen Momak co-opted by the kickers, whole-hearted in his ruthless tromping on the heads of his kin.
Every limited liability company is run by a small number of self-appointed or co-opted directors.
Kathleen tells me that her class has pooled their eveners to buy a Fardie for their school as a graduation present and that they are going to outswing it for the first time at the commencement exercises—then she had to hurry away because she had been co-opted in charge.