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What does co-opt mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word co-opt? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
  2. To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
  3. To absorb or assimilate into an established group.
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The members will be considering their options and deciding whether or not to co-opt new members onto the committee at this stage.
My concern with doing so is that someone else might co-opt my thoughts, ideas, or turns of phrases for use in their own submissions.
If no candidates come forward town councillors have the power to co-opt a member.
It was agreed that the officers would have the power to co-opt three members to act with them on the committee.
Five members were nominated for the forum, and they were given power to co-opt more members once a strategy had been formed.
If no candidate had been nominated by early next month councillors would have been given the chance to co-opt a member.

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