• A cooperative
  Cooperative
  A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...
  
   organization, association, or company owned by its members
• A pen or enclosure for birds, such as a chicken coop
  Chicken coop
  A chicken coop is a building where female chickens are kept. Inside there are often nest boxes for egg laying and perches on which the birds can sleep, although coops for meat birds seldom have either of these features....
  
  , or slang for a prison
  Prison
  A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
  
  

Types of cooperative organizations

• Agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, an enterprise or company where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity
• Artist cooperative
  Artist cooperative
  An artist cooperative is an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly-owned and democratically-controlled by its members. Artist cooperatives are legal entities organized as non-capital stock corporations, non-profit organizations, or unincorporated associations...
  
  , an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly-owned and democratically-controlled by and for the benefit of its artist-members
• Building cooperative, a cooperative housing corporation where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes in a cooperative fashion
• Consumers cooperative, a cooperative business owned by its customers for their mutual benefit
• Housing cooperative
  Housing cooperative
  A housing cooperative is a legal entity—usually a corporation—that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease. ...
  
  , a legal entity that owns real estate, as opposed to a condominium
  Condominium
  A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...
  
  
• Retailers cooperative, or a secondary or marketing cooperative, an organization which employs economies of scale on behalf of its members to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing
• Utility cooperative
  Utility cooperative
  A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members...
  
  , a public utility that is owned by its customers
• Worker cooperative
  Worker cooperative
  A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically managed by its worker-owners. This control may be exercised in a number of ways. A cooperative enterprise may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which...
  
  , or producer cooperative, an enterprise or company owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners

Businesses

• Federated Co-operatives
  Federated Co-operatives
  Federated Co-operatives Limited , is a co-operative federation, established in 1955, providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. Federated Co-operatives is owned by about 265 member co-operatives across the region...
  
  , a Canadian co-operative federation known for its "CO-OP" brand products and stores
• Coop (Netherlands)
  Coop (Netherlands)
  Coop Supermarkten is a supermarket chain founded in 1865 in Zaandam, Netherlands. It's named after the cooperative aspects of the company. Last year Coop Supermarkten changed her name from CoopCodis to Coop Supermarkten for a better identity amongst costumers...
  
  , a Dutch supermarket chain
• Coop (Switzerland)
  Coop (Switzerland)
  Coop is a Swiss cooperative which operates the largest in supermarket chain in Switzerland. In 2001, Coop merged with 11 cooperative federations which had been its main suppliers for over 100 years....
  
  , a Swiss supermarket chain
• Coop (Italy)
  Coop (Italy)
  Coop is a system of Italian consumers' cooperatives which operates the largest supermarket chain in Italy. It has its head office in Casalecchio di Reno, Province of Bologna, near Bologna.The first cooperative shop was established in Turin in 1854....
  
  , an Italian supermarket chain
• Coop (Hungary), a Hungarian supermarket chain
• Coop Norden
  Coop Norden
  Coop Norden is a joint Scandinavian holding company, formerly a retail chain. It is owned by three major cooperative retail companies; Danish FDB , Swedish KF , and Norwegian Coop NKL . As a retailer Coop Norden operated around 1,000 stores and had a yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion...
  
  , a Scandinavian purchasing company, owner of different types of stores named Coop in Scandinavia
• Coop Himmelb(l)au
  Coop Himmelb(l)au
  Coop Himmelbau is a cooperative architectural design firm primarily located in Vienna, Austria and which now also maintains offices in Los Angeles, United States and Guadalajara, Mexico...
  
  , an architectural design firm
• Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
  Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
  The Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based cooperative serving the Harvard University and MIT campuses.It was founded as the Harvard Cooperative in 1882 to supply books, school supplies, and coal...
  
  , nicknamed "The Coop", a cooperative campus store based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Co-operative Group
  The Co-operative Group
  The Co-operative Group Ltd. is a United Kingdom consumer cooperative with a diverse range of business interests. It is co-operatively run and owned by its members. It is the largest organisation of this type in the world, with over 5.5 million members, who all have a say in how the business is...
  
  , a group of UK co-operative businesses
• The Co-operative brand
  The Co-operative brand
  The Co-operative is a common branding used by a variety of co-operatives based in the United Kingdom.Many in the UK mistakenly consider the Co-op to be a single national business, however each Co-operative is actually a franchise selling branded goods produced by the Co-operative Group The...
  
  , a branding used by several UK co-operative businesses (not the same as the Co-operative Group), including a well-known supermarket chain generally referred to as "The Co-Op"

People

• Coop (artist)
  Coop (artist)
  Coop is a hot rod artist working from Los Angeles. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1968, and describes his occupation as "Insensitive Artiste". His work consists primarily of barely clothed Bettie Page-style 1950s soft pornography and/or B-movie monsters, with the female characters often taking...
  
  , an American Hot-Rod artist
• Coop (Charmed), short for "Cupid", a character in the television series
• Coop, a character on Megas XLR
  Megas XLR
  Megas XLR is an American animated television series that aired on the Toonami block on Cartoon Network and is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic...
  
  
• Marissa Cooper's
  Marissa Cooper
  Marissa Cooper is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Mischa Barton. Marissa was among the original "core four" characters on The O.C. until her death in the season three finale, "The Graduates."...
  
   nickname on The O.C.

Concepts

• Cooperative education
  Cooperative education
  Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
  
  , structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience.
• Cooperative gameplay
  Cooperative gameplay
  Cooperative gameplay is a feature in video games that allows players to work together as teammates. It is distinct from other multiplayer modes, such as competitive multiplayer modes like player versus player or deathmatch...
  
   in video games

Other uses

• CO-OP Financial Services
  CO-OP Financial Services
  CO-OP Financial Services, formerly known as CO-OP Network, is an interbank network connecting the ATMs of credit unions in the United States, with locations also in Canada and certain United States Navy bases overseas...
  
  
• Coop (Philippines), a minor political party in the Philippines
• The Co-Op (album) by DJ Envy and Red Cafe
• The Co-op, a 1980s singer-songwriter cooperative that formed the Fast Folk Musical Magazine
• Coop Arena
  Coop Arena
  Coop Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Luleå, Sweden. The seating capacity of the arena is 6 200 and it's the home arena of the Luleå HF ice hockey team...
  
  , an indoor sporting arena in Luleå, Sweden
• A type of street football with one goal
• A weight scale (or weighbridge) on a US Highway, mostly used by Truck Drivers, also known as "Chicken Coop"
• .coop
  .coop
  The domain coop is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for the use of cooperatives, wholly owned subsidiaries, and other organizations that exist to promote or support co-operatives....
  
  , the top level domain used only for cooperatives on the Internet