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co-optation
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CO-OPTATION. A concurring choice. Sometimes applied to the act of the members of a corporation, in choosing a person to supply a vacancy. in their body.



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His expertise has been a huge asset to the ROA, and the decision has therefore been taken to co-opt him on to the council, which allows us to continue to benefit from his outstanding knowledge.
Haneke, according to this analysis, places formal filmic techniques of aesthetic reflexivity in new frameworks that allow him to co-opt the spectator in a uniquely moral relationship to the film, leading to the questioning of the spectator's complicity with the cinematic apparatus and acceptance or denial of this complicity.
The need to co-opt the private sector in spearheading the national economy was also highlighted.
 
 
 
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