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be co-opted
verb
To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
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Families would be justifiably proud and could be co-opted to provide domestic support.
It's an interesting reminder of how poetry's rhetorical clout can be co-opted for propaganda.
If Prokhorov does relatively well he could then be co-opted to take a government post.
Some players would be co-opted and coerced to step away.
"They have not allowed themselves to be co-opted by Western countries.
And Labour has allowed itself to be co-opted and absorbed by the more right wing parties including Kadima.
They generally vote with the government and could be co-opted fully into Civic Platform to boost its ranks.
It sounds as if the answer would be yes if Luc Vandevelde, the chairman of Marks and Spencer, could be co-opted as leader.
More specifically, individual corporate officers have to be appeased, powerful interest groups have to be co-opted and made allies, and competitors have to be undermined or eliminated.
Will its core set of radical ideals be co-opted?
Who wouldn't be co-opted?
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