Definition of "co-op"

co-op

/ˈkoʊˌɒp/

noun
plural co-ops
1. A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
2. Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
  Quotations
  Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]
  1973, New Society, volume 25, London: New Society Ltd., page 25
3. Any shop owned by a cooperative.
4. (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
verb
third-person singular simple present co-ops, present participle co-oping or co-opping, simple past and past participle co-oped or co-opped
1. Synonym of cooperate
  Quotations
  It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.
  2012, Darrien Lee, All That and a Bag of Chips‎