Cooperative vs Cabal - What's the difference?
cooperative | cabal | Related terms |
Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives
A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants. Abbreviation: co-op.
A usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
A secret plot.
An identifiable group within the tradition of .
* 1965
To engage in the activities of a
* I believed her to have been carried off by some persons belonging to a party of Jacobites who were known to be caballing against the government, though to what extent was not then ascertained.
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Cooperative is a related term of cabal.
As an adjective cooperative
is .As a noun cabal is
a usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.As a verb cabal is
to engage in the activities of a.cooperative
English
Alternative forms
* co-operative * *Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* adversarial * competitiveNoun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "cooperative")References
* Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=cooperative&title=21st&sourceid=Mozilla-search] retrieved on November 7, 2006 ----cabal
English
(wikipedia cabal)Noun
(en noun)- The cabal is plotting to take over the world.
- The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents.
- Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal . Some work together. Some never do explain.