0 present participle of co-opt --
1 (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members: --
That education committee will be subject to the normal procedures for the co-opting of members.
Is the co-opting body to be the county council, or is it to be the new body, which is a different thing?
Has there not been far too much co-opting?
The principle of co-opting people for this kind of thing is wrong.
In regard to the co-opting of members of these committees the ultimate control is in the hands of the council.
Religion's reliance on structures originally evolved for different tasks is evolutionarily parsimonious and parallels numerous other adaptations, such as the co-opting of insulating bird feathers for flight.
This continuity across species suggests that language came to this region not by co-opting existing visuomotor functions but rather as a separate and entirely unrelated adaptation.
In this process it is not clear who is co-opting whom.
