0 past participle, past simple of co-opt --
1 (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members: --
After all, it is common enough in biology for a system initially selected for one purpose to be co-opted and used for another.
The white tip has been co-opted (recruited) for use in these behaviour patterns.
Nonetheless, popular culture was also frequently co-opted, and buttressed, rather than challenged, the bourgeois social order.
However, not all of the nationalists were co-opted by the colonial regime.
In this scenario, the future for participants is often precarious, and success depends on the ability to be co-opted or excluded by the market.
The coordination of work in the pursuit of subsistence eventually may have been co-opted by elites.
Finally, social movements drove the issue forward till interest groups transformed (or co-opted) the campaign into standard interest-group and party politics.
Under such conditions, environmental regulations can even be co-opted to keep new, cleaner entrants out and further solidify the dominance of old, heavily polluting industries.
