CO-OPERATIVE

Date "CO-OPERATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: CO-OPERATIVE

References

• Mayflower Co-operative Bank M.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• A Co-Operative Security Order in and for Europe (reference)

• A Matter of People: Co-Operative Dairying in India and Zimbabwe (reference)

• Co-Operative Dreams: A History of the Kaweah Colony (reference)

• Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War (Women's History Series) (reference)

• Inuit Journey: The Co-Operative Adventure in Canada's North (reference)

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Periodicals

• Canadian Co-operative Credit Society Annual Report (reference)

• Journal Of Co-operative Studies (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The SANTA FLAVIA - a floating cannery owned by the Alaska Fisheries Co-operative Packing Company. Credit: Fisheries.

Co-operative Bookstore, Howard University, Washington, D.C., [interior]. Credit: Library of Congress.

The New York Co-operative Society, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmers unload new potato sacks brought by growers' co-operative. Monte Vista, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower with a bull calf purchased with a FSA community co-operative service loan and his two milk cows. Caswell County, North Carolina. Farm of Emery F. Farrar, Prospect Hill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Co-operative Marketing Conference. Credit: Library of Congress.

Co-operators in politics : 18 MPs, 5 ministers : lead with the Co-operative Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

Consumer protection : lead with the Co-operative Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Co-operative Party has a threefold purpose : to defend the Co-operative Movement : to represent and promote consumer's interests ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Democratic ownership is the Co-operative way : join the Co-operative Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Uae

The country is also an active participant and supporter of the Gulf Co-operative Council (GCC), which includes the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, as well the UAE. (references)

Haiti

Investors in Haiti may utilize the following legal forms of business: sole proprietorship, limited or general partnership, joint-stock company, public company (corporation), subsidiary of a foreign company, co-operative society. (references)

Denmark

There are 97 commercial banks and 90 small local savings and co-operative banks in Denmark with some 40,000 employees and total assets of USD 226 billion (1999). The assets of the two largest banks, Danske Bank and Unibank (now part of the Nordea Group domiciled in Sweden), amounted to USD 141 billion. (references)

Political Economy

Guyana

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has a multiparty political system based on proportional representation. (references)

Trade

Guyana

The one remaining state-owned bank is Guyana National Co-Operative Bank (GNCB), was prepared for privatization during 2001. There are three foreign-owned banks--the Bank of Nova Scotia (Canada), the Bank of Baroda (India), and the National Bank of Industry and Commerce (NBIC), which was bought by Republic Bank of Trinidad. (references)

Finland

The Finnish banking system is dominated by three major groups of deposit banks: Nordea (Merita Nordbanken, the result of the merger between Merita and Swedish Nordbanken, Danish Unidanmark and Norwegian Christiania Bank) as well as OKO Bank (the Cooperative Bank Group) and the Sampo Group (merger of the insurance company Sampo and the bank group Leonia in 2001). At the end of 2000, a total of 337 domestic banks were operating in Finland, eight of these being commercial banks, 246 co-operative banks part of the OKO bank group, 43 local co-operative banks and 40 savings banks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "CO-OPERATIVE": co-operative-server.

Ending with "CO-OPERATIVE": non-co-operative.

Danish

kooperativ virksomhed (agricultural co-operative, cooperative, cooperative society, farm co-operative, farmers'co-operative). (various references)

Dutch

arbeidscooeperatie (cooperative). (various references)

Finnish

osuustoiminnallinen. (various references)

French

coopérative (co op, cooperation, cooperative). (various references)

German

Genossenschaft (association, co operative, companionship). (various references)

Greek 

συνεταιρισμός (cooperative). (various references)

Hungarian

szövetkezet (co operative, co-op, co-operative society, hook-up). (various references)

Italian

cooperativa (companionship, cooperative). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"同組合 (a co-operative, a partnership), �"業 (co-operative industry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうぎょう (co-operative industry), きょうどうくみあい (a co-operative, a partnership, cooperative, partnership). (various references)

Manx

co-obbragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

o-operativecay

Portuguese

cooperativo (cooperative), cooperativa (collective, co-op). (various references)

Russian 

совместный (co operative, collaborative, collective, cooperative, jnt joint, joint, joint-development, mutual, participatory). (various references)

Spanish

cooperativa comunidad (cooperative). (various references)

Swedish

villig att samarbeta (co operative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có tính chất cộng tác, hợp tác xã. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cooperative.

-2 letters: cooperate, evaporite, operative, proactive.

-3 letters: creative, evocator, operatic, orective, overcoat, reactive.

-4 letters: apricot, aprotic, captive, coterie, coveter, ectopia, erotica, evictor, ocreate, operate, overact, overapt, overate, overeat, overtip, overtop, paretic, parotic, peatier, picotee, picrate, portico, private, receipt, revoice.

-5 letters: active, aortic, apiece, atopic, avocet, capote, captor, carpet, cartop, cavort, cerate, cerite, coatee, coater, cooper, cooter.

+1 letter: cooperatives.

+2 letters: cooperatively, uncooperative.

+3 letters: noncooperative, overcomplicate.

+4 letters: cooperativeness, overcomplicated, overcomplicates, overexpectation, overspeculation, provocativeness, radioprotective.

+5 letters: cryopreservation, overcompensating, overcompensation, overexpectations, overspeculations.