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cooptation

noun cooptations · coöptation · co-optation

countable, uncountable A co-opting: a commandeering, appropriation, or taking over.
Similar: cooption
countable, uncountable A co-opting: an absorption or assimilation. This book is a study of co-optation rather than counterculture, an analysis of the forces and logic that made rebel youth cultures so attractive to corporate decision-makers rather than a study of those cultures themselves. In doing so, it risks running afoul of what I will call the co-optation theo
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@misc{cooptation_2026,
  title = {cooptation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cooptation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}