cooperativistadj.n.

1891 Twentieth Cent. 31 Dec. 10/2 No agitative economic school, whether it be Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Nationalist, Single-taxest, Coöperativist, Collectivist, Individualist, or what not—in and of itself contains an ultimately perfect ideal.

1923 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 12 393 In co-operativist practice the workers become the employers, and the tecnici as well as the director become the employed.

1981 Govt. & Opposition 16 501 A genuinely cooperativist economy seems a greater challenge to capitalist ownership than is apparent in these books.

2009 D. J. Hess Localist Movements in Global Econ. i. 49 His work synthesized..the cooperativist strand of socialist thought that emphasized employee ownership and the Gandhian version of village-centered communalism.

1895 T. K. Smith Altruria ii. 54 It seems that after all you are not Altruists..; that you are simply co-operativists who have combined to reap a greater benefit for yourselves and against the rest of the world.

1961 M. Salvadori Western Roots in Europe xix. 212 The Swiss are highly diversified... There are conservatives, liberals and socialists; free enterprisers, co-operativists and collectivists.

2011 R. Lindberg Whiskey Breakfast x. 162 My father was a collectivist, a cooperativist, and a secret Trotskyite who had fought to defend these viewpoints.

1962 tr. C. R. Rodriguez in Daily Rep. Foreign Radio Broadcasts (U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service) 22 Aug. HHHH6 Under the state farm system, every cooperativist is assured work.

1977 J. Martinez-Alier Haciendas, Plantations & Collective Farms i. 25 Though parts of the profits are paid out in taxes, the cooperativists will have a standard of living far higher than that of the surrounding masses of unemployed men and women.

2006 Estrategia (Nexis) 4 Dec. Cooperativa Agricola Pisquera Elqui (Capel) of Chile, controlled by 1,400 cooperativists and boasting almost a 54% market share, was born back in 1938.