co-opt

To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. / To commandeer, appropriate or take over. / To absorb or assimilate into an established group.

Japanese Meaning

委員会などのグループに同僚として選出する / 横領、強制的に取り込む、または支配下に置く / 既存のグループへ吸収または同化させる

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The committee voted to co-opt Lina as a new member to replace the departing chair.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

委員会は退任する議長に代わる新しい委員としてリナを選出することに決めた。

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Sense（1）

To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.

Sense（2）

To commandeer, appropriate or take over.

Sense（3）

To absorb or assimilate into an established group.

In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.

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co-opts

（ present singular third-person ）

co-opting

（ participle present ）

co-opted

（ participle past ）

co-opted

（ past ）

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