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- Dictionaryco-opt/ˌkəʊˈɒpt/
verb
- 1. appoint to membership of a committee or other body by invitation of the existing members: "the committee may co-opt additional members for special purposes"
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to include someone in something, often against their will: Whether they liked it or not, local people were co-opted into the victory parade. to use someone else's ideas: Rock and roll music was largely co-opted from the blues. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Applying for a job. acqui-hire. advertisement. anointed. applicant. assign.
The meaning of CO-OPT is to choose or elect as a member. How to use co-opt in a sentence.
to include someone in something, often against their will: Whether they liked it or not, local people were co-opted into the victory parade. to use someone else's ideas: Rock and roll music was largely co-opted from the blues. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Applying for a job. acqui-hire. advertisement. anointed. applicant. assign.
To co-opt something is to take possession of it to use it for your own purposes. Don't co-opt your friend's short story title — take the time to come up with your own! When you co-opt an idea, you use it as though you'd come up with it, despite the fact that someone else thought of it first.
3 meanings: 1. If you co-opt someone, you persuade them to help or support you. 2. If someone is co-opted into a group, they.... Click for more definitions.
co-opt somebody/something (disapproving) to change somebody/something to a different role from the usual or original one; to take somebody's idea and use it for your own purposes. Politicians have been trying to co-opt the movement without embracing its values.
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.
