Synonyms for co-opt
koʊˈɒptco-opt

Princeton's WordNet

1. co-optverb

   choose or elect as a fellow member or colleague

   "The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation"

2. co-optverb

   neutralize or win over through assimilation into an established group

   "We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance"

3. co-optverb

   appoint summarily or commandeer

   "The army tried to co-opt peasants into civil defence groups"

4. co-optverb

   take or assume for one's own use

   "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it"

Matched Categories

1. • Appoint
   • Elect
   • Neutralize
   • Take

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hijack, seizing

   to appropriate for one's own purpose

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

How to pronounce co-opt?

How to say co-opt in sign language?

How to use co-opt in a sentence?

1. White House:

   The proposal allows wealthy households to spread initial top-up payments on unrealized income over nine years, and then five years for top-up payments on new income going forward, stretching payment over multiple years will smooth year-to-year variation in investment income, while still ensuring that the wealthiest end up paying a minimum tax rate of 20 percent. Illiquid taxpayers may opt to pay later with interest.

2. Law Professor Frank Askin:

   I don't think you can do it in this country because I don’t think the First Amendment would permit it, people have a right to opt out of elections. It's not happening.

3. Bart Staes:

   Countries opposed to GMOs are given the carrot of being able to opt-out of these authorisations, but the scheme approved today fails to give them a legally-watertight basis for doing so. This is a false solution.

4. David Mamet:

   The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

5. Peter Chen:

   Certainly the mainstream parties, as they have reached consensus around asylum seekers and offshore detention shows that they have attempted to adopt or at least co-opt the core policy messages of some of these far right groups.