0 present participle of co-opt
1 (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members:
Regarding co-construction, we might ask whether collaboration results in co-construction of knowledge or co-opting of knowledge.
The requirement to take an oath was a form of insurance on behalf of the co-opting group.
In the civil rights movement, compelling positive federal intervention had the further effect of co-opting the federal government's discursive authority for the protestors' side.
Exaptation, or the co-opting of previously evolved functions to do new things, can seriously compromise robotic simulation.
This process of rapid innovation and co-opting of each other's ideas has reduced the hedging costs of caps and swap options.
The subcommittees met 77 times, co-opting 72 officials, and interviewing 87 witnesses.
It incorporated citizens and leaders into participatory forums without co-opting them.
In this process it is not clear who is co-opting whom.
