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What does co-opted mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of co-opt
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As expected, these systems involve using bits co-opted from other pathways originally having different functions.
She was first co-opted and then elected on to the professional conduct committee.
It's hard not to feel as if you've co-opted part of their belief system just because you're using their words.
Aspects of patriarchy, in my opinion, have become co-opted by commercialism and corporatism.
How do we protect the ideas from being co-opted by neo-conservatives and risking greater erosion of the welfare state?
Plurality may exist, but its presence could easily be co-opted by a charismatic leadership that monopolizes decision-making.

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