co-opt

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkəʊˌɒpt/    美 /ˈkoʊˌɑpt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. transitive
  2. To commandeer, appropriate or take over. transitive
    — Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.
  3. To absorb or assimilate into an established group, movement, category, etc. transitive
    — In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.

词形变化

co-opts present,singular,third-person co-opting participle,present co-opted participle,past co-opted past coopt alternative coöpt alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
co-optation co-optative co-option co-optive
相关词
recuperation

词源

From Latin cooptō (“to choose, elect”), from co(m)- + optō (“to opt”).
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