Coop or co-op or COOP may refer to:
- A cooperative organization, association, or company owned by its members
- A pen or enclosure for birds, such as a chicken coop, or slang for a prison
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, 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, a legal entity that owns real estate, as opposed to a condominium
- 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, a public utility that is owned by its customers
- Worker cooperative, or producer cooperative, an enterprise or company owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners
Other meanings
- Coop (Philippines), a minor political party in the Philippines
- Coop (artist), an American Hot-Rod artist
- Coop (Charmed), a character on Charmed
- Coop (Supermarket), a Dutch supermarket series
- Coop, a character on Megas XLR.
- The Co-Op (album) by DJ Envy and Red Cafe
- Coop Arena, an indoor sporting arena in Luleå, Sweden
- Coop Himmelb(l)au, an architectural design firm
- CO-OP Financial Services
- Co-op Hardware, a Canadian hardware store
- Cooperative education, structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience.
- Cooperative gameplay in video games
- The Co-op, a 1980s singer-songwriter cooperative that formed the Fast Folk Musical Magazine
- 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"
- Marissa Cooper's nickname on The O.C.
- .coop, the top level domain used only for cooperatives on the Internet
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