- Chicken coop, a pen or enclosure for birds
- Cooperative ("coop") or co-operative ("co-op"), an association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual, social, economic, and cultural benefit
- Cooperative education, a method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience
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In arts and entertainment
- Cooperative gameplay, in video games
- The Co-op, a 1980s singer-songwriter cooperative that formed the Fast Folk musical magazine
Fictional characters
- Coop (Charmed), short for "Cupid", a character in the television series
- Marissa Cooper, character on The O.C., nicknamed "Coop"
- Coop, a character on 'Megas XLR
Businesses
- Coop (Italy), an Italian supermarket chain
- Coop (Hungary), a Hungarian supermarket chain
- Coop (Netherlands), a Dutch supermarket chain
- Coop (Switzerland), a Swiss supermarket chain
- Coop Himmelb(l)au, an architectural design firm
- COOP (Puerto Rico), a Puerto Rican supermarket chain
- Coop Norden, a Scandinavian purchasing company
- The Co-operative brand, used by several UK co-operative businesses
- The Co-operative Group, the largest co-operative in UK
- The Co-operative Food, a food brand in the UK known as "The Co-Op"
- Federated Co-operatives, a Canadian co-operative federation known for its "CO-OP" brand products and stores
- Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society, nicknamed "The Coop", a cooperative campus store based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
People
- Coop (artist), an American Hot-Rod artist
- Jim Coop (born 1927), English professional footballer
- Mick Coop (born 1948), English professional footballer
Places
- Co-Op Block and J. N. Ireland Bank, a NRHP-listed property in Malad City, Idaho
- Co-Operative, Kentucky
- Co-operative Block Building, a NRHP-listed property in Crawford, Nebraska
- Coop Norrbotten Arena, an indoor sporting arena in Luleå, Sweden
- Co-operative Republic of Guyana, a country in South America
Types of cooperative organizations
- Agricultural cooperative, or farmers' co-op
- Artist cooperative
- Building cooperative, a cooperative housing corporation where individuals or families work together to construct their own homes
- Consumer 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
- Utility cooperative, a public utility that is owned by its customers
- Worker cooperative, or producer cooperative, an enterprise or company owned and controlled by its worker-owners
Cooperative federations
A co-operative federation, or secondary co-operative, is a co-operative in which all members are, in turn, co-operatives:- Cooperative banking
- Cooperative federation
- Co-operative Wholesale Society
- Retailers' cooperative, or secondary or marketing cooperative, which employs economies of scale to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing
Other uses
- .coop, a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet
- COOP exam, a standardized admission test at certain Catholic high schools
- CO-OP Financial Services, an interbank ATM network
- Continuity of Operations plan, a United States continuity of government initiative
- Craft of Opportunity Program, a Royal Australian Navy minesweeper acquisition program
- Coop, a minor political party in the Philippines
- A type of street football with one goal
- A truck scale, on US highways, also known as a "chicken coop"
- Coop, slang for a prison
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