1650s, "to select (someone) for a group or club by a vote of members," from Latin cooptare "to elect, to choose as a colleague or member of one's tribe," from com- "together" (see com-) + optare "choose" (see option (n.)). For some reason this defied the usual pattern of Latin-to-English adaptation, which should have yielded *cooptate. Sense of "take over" is first recorded c. 1953. Related: Co-opted; co-opting.
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1. For details visit our website at www.cobuild.collins.co.uk.
欲知详情，请访问我们的网站www.cobuild.collins.co.uk。
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2. Email your views to sport@times.co.u.
k将您的看法以电子邮件形式发送至sport@times.co.uk。
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3. Check out our website at www.cobuild.collins.co.uk.
请登录我们的网站www.cobuild.collins.co.uk查看。
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4. The formalization of co-operation between the republics would produce progress.
正式确立合作关系将会促进共和国之间合作的顺利进展。
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5. They agreed to work co-operatively to ease tensions wherever possible.
