0 (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members:
1 to persuade someone who criticizes or disagrees with you to join your group so that the person can no longer oppose you:
As products of hegemony, they co-opt both elites from peripheral countries and also counterhegemonic ideas.
As with local voices, political commentators will rush to denounce or to support the foreign speaker, seeking to discredit him or to co-opt him.
These sponsors could then co-opt anxieties about national unity in a selective celebration designed purely for their own ends.
On another level, institutions co-opt ideas that challenge the world economy by transforming ideas to make them consistent with hegemonic doctrines.
On these foundations a significant part of civil society resisted attempts of local governments and politicians to co-opt them.
The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema.
This model could be used to study how glioblastoma tumour cells co-opt the host stromal cells to enhance tumour cell growth, survival, and invasion.
Both governments worked diligently to co-opt organized labor following independence.
