cooptation

Definitions

1. Dated spelling of cooptation.
   uncountable
2. A co-opting: a commandeering, appropriation, or taking over.
   countable, uncountable
3. A co-opting: an absorption or assimilation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This book is a study⟳ of co-optation rather than counterculture, an analysis of the forces and logic that made rebel youth cultures so attractive to corporate decision-makers rather than a study⟳ of those cultures themselves. In doing so, it risks running afoul of what I will call⟳ the co-optation theory: faith in the revolutionary potential of "authentic" counterculture combined with the notion that business mimics and mass-produces fake counterculture in order⟳ to cash in on a particular demographic and to subvert the great threat that "real" counterculture represents.”

“It may be observed that the draft rules make⟳ no provision for coöptation, an arrangement that appears nevertheless in the rules of many local associations.”

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