Definition of "cooperative"

cooperative

adjective
comparative more cooperative, superlative most cooperative
1. Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
  Quotations
  Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
  2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎, Harvard University Press, page 12
2. Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
3. Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
noun
plural cooperatives
1. A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
  Quotations
  The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
  1965 , C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village‎, The M.I.T. Press, page 153