Meanings (ES + gloss)
cooptar
To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
adueñarse • arrebatar • cooptar
To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by t…
cooptar
To absorb or assimilate into an established group, movement, category, etc.
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. Th…
Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted G…