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co-opting : acommandeering ,appropriation , ortaking over . - noun A
co-opting : anabsorption orassimilation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This cooptation was a kind of containment, it might be said, from which women could never quite break free, partly because their culture made it virtually impossible for them even to imagine what such freedom might entail.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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They had been, well, duped through an old social activism trick called cooptation:
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Bref je piapiate avec elle jusqu'a trouver la breche qui me fait dire "non mais je connais votre fonctionnement car j'ai souvent postulé pour travailler chez vous" la elle est etonnée et me pose plein de questions et tout et tout et me fait remplir un dossier de "cooptation".
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Paris, who is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, classified a future president Obama opting for "cooptation" rather than confrontation, a characteristic attributed to the Bush Administration.
MyAntiwar.org 2008
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A cooptation strategy would not have been easy to implement.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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My gut rebels, in the same way that watching middle-class drag kings portraying their take on the brutish masculinity of working class males for sexual arousal of screaming mostly middle class (or aspiring thereto) women struck me as sick-making cooptation.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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The Fijian junta's cooptation of the 99% meme as it outlaws and brutally punishes any form of protest is a meta-lobbying joke well-played on HuffPost readers.
Anna Lenzer: "Team Fiji" Co-opts the 99% Anna Lenzer 2011
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My gut rebels, in the same way that watching middle-class drag kings portraying their take on the brutish masculinity of working class males for sexual arousal of screaming mostly middle class (or aspiring thereto) women struck me as sick-making cooptation.
Minstrel Shows 2010
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A cooptation strategy would not have been easy to implement.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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A cooptation strategy would not have been easy to implement.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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