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   co-opt, coöpt (?), v. t. [See Cooptate. Cf. F. coopter.] To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.]
   
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   Each of the hundred was to coopt three others. Jowett (Thucyd.).
   
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   2. To choose or elect as a colleague or fellow member of a group; as, “The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation”.
   
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   3. To assimilate (a smaller group) into a larger group.
   
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   4. To persuade an opponent to join one's own side.
   
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   5. To appoint summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).
   
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   6. To appropriate (something rightly belonging to another) as one's own; to preempt; as, “to co-opt someone's name”.
   
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