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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[See

. Cf. F.

coopter

To choose or elect in concert with another.

[R.]

Each of the hundred was to

coopt

three others.

Jowett (Thucyd.).

See also: coöpt and co-opt

coopt ‎(third-person singular simple present coopts, present participle coopting, simple past and past participle coopted)