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n. - A jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners.

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  • A co-op board is part sorority, part Soviet Union.
  • The 12-story building was converted into a co-op in 1986.
  • It was the role of the co-op secretary to deliver this news.
  • This one-bedroom co-op is located on West 119th Street in Harlem.
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  • The members of the "co-op" (a cooperative, something owned and operated by its users) wanted to coop up both their chickens and their rabbits in the chicken "coop" (small enclosure for housing birds or animals).
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