raymondaliasapollyon
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- Jan 13, 2019
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- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Taiwan
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- Taiwan
If someone has been co-opted into a group, is he or she necessarily a member of it?
The Collins Cobuild dictionary has the following definition:
If someone is co-opted into a group, they are asked by that group to become a member, rather than joining or being elected in the normal way.
E.g. He was co-opted into the Labour Government of 1964.
This description does not tell us whether the person in question was a member of the Labour Government of 1964.
However, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines "co-opt" as follows:
to make sb a member of a group, committee, etc. by the agreement of all the other members
This definition would allow us to infer that the person was a member.
Which is correct?
The Collins Cobuild dictionary has the following definition:
If someone is co-opted into a group, they are asked by that group to become a member, rather than joining or being elected in the normal way.
E.g. He was co-opted into the Labour Government of 1964.
This description does not tell us whether the person in question was a member of the Labour Government of 1964.
However, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines "co-opt" as follows:
to make sb a member of a group, committee, etc. by the agreement of all the other members
This definition would allow us to infer that the person was a member.
Which is correct?