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    [Verb]  | "co-opt" | \ kō-ˈäpt \


    1: to choose or elect as a member

    2: to appoint as a colleague or assistant

    3: to take into a group (such as a faction, movement, or culture) : absorb, assimilate


    Origin: 1651 ;

     Latin cooptare, from co- + optare to choose;

    [Verb]  | "co-opted" 


    1: to make a part of a body or system;


      * e.g., " ... the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups "



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    [Verb]  | "co-opt" 


    1: to make a part of a body or system;


      * e.g., " ... the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





     [ "urban co-opting" ]

    1: Posting a previously submitted definition on Urban Dictionary (almost verbatim) just to inflate one's sorry, battered ego by getting votes up, collaterally.

      * e.g.,  ... See: vaguebooking (definitions # 1 & ) Obviously, Bambimasticator is Urban Co-opting. 

     [ "Co-opted" ]

    1: Yeah, hey, I tried to warn you but you're being a stupid collectivist bitch.

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "Well, if you weren't a smug, retarded, asshole and you would have listened to PEOPLE WHO ARE SMARTER THAN YOU, you wouldn't have to blow smoke up you candidate's ass to manufacture enthusiasm. My thing is being entirely co-opted here." 

     [ "Co-opted" ]

    1: divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "This ☝️ is what 'Co-opted' means in the context of what I said. That's what you're doing and YOU SAY YOU ARE DOING IT. In saying that 'The modern conceptualization of sanity as an internal quality is wrong.' You're effectively saying that the general consensus is wrong and that YOU are correct. That's called diverting to a role different from the original one. It marks a change in the conceptualization of sanity BROUGHT ON BY YOU SHIT-HEAD. God you motherfuckers are dumb! " 

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