单词 | co-opt |
释义 | co-optv. transitive. To elect into a body by the votes of its existing members. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)] > elect by existing members co-optate1623 co-opt1651 1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 158 The favour they did him to co-opt him into the body of their Nobility. 1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 183 He sufferd himself to be coopted into the Colledg of Cardinalls. 1724 Reg. Trin. Coll., Dublin in Fraser Life Berkeley (1871) iv. 101 Dr. Clayton was admitted and co-opted Senior Fellow. 1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 17 A body of bravoes..who co-opt into their body those who, by strength of arm and skill in the use of the stiletto, may have shown themselves worthy of the distinction. 1862 Sat. Rev. 14 217/1 The claim of the existing Residentiaries to coopt to a vacancy. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 418 These eight co-opted two more, and these ten two more. 1881 Nature 27 Jan. 292/1 He was co-opted a Senior Fellow..[and] made Vice-Provost. Derivatives co-ˈopted adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > electing or elected by existing members co-optative1874 co-opting1875 co-opted1881 co-optated1882 co-optive1894 1881 Times 17 May 4/1 The Convocation of Canterbury..by means of members of their own body and co-opted scholars and divines..have completed one portion of the work. 1887 Q. Rev. Jan. 176 Coopted trustees. co-ˈopting adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > electing or elected by existing members co-optative1874 co-opting1875 co-opted1881 co-optated1882 co-optive1894 1875 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy I. iii. 149 The Grand Council..as a co-opting body, tended to become a close aristocracy. Draft additions 1993 2. To absorb into a larger (esp. political) group; to take over or adopt (an idea, etc.). U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > take [verb (transitive)] > take over > take over by larger group co-opt1969 1969 Atlantic Oct. 18/1 A Republican Party based in the ‘Heartland’ (Midwest), West, and South can and should co-opt the Wallace vote. 1970 New Yorker 16 May 34/3 All too often, mere approval of their social and political concern has, in the jargon, co-opted their causes and deadened them. 1982 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. a6/3 The argument has been, co-opt the left before it's too late. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking iv. xvii. 315 As English as apple pie, colonists must have said before America co-opted the dish for its own. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1651 |
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