Usually means: Adopt for one's own use.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word co-opt:

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  1. co-opt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. co-opt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. co-opt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. co-opt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. co-opt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Co-Opt, Co-opt, co-opt: Wordnik
  7. co-opt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. co-opt: Wiktionary
  9. co-opt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. co-opt: Dictionary.com
  11. co-opt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. co-opt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Co-opt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. co-opt: Rhymezone
  15. co-opt: Free Dictionary
  16. co-opt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. co-opt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. co-opt: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. co-opt: Legal dictionary

(Note: See co-optation as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  take or assume for one's own use ("He co-opted the criticism and embraced it")
verb:  appoint summarily or commandeer ("The army tried to co-opt peasants into civil defence groups")
verb:  choose or elect as a fellow member or colleague ("The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation")
verb:  neutralize or win over through assimilation into an established group ("We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance")

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