co
Clipping of company.
Noun
- Clipping of company.
Forms
Derived
Pronoun
- Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...] - 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: A Documentary Study of Twin Oaks Community:
- At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context and different terms in a Euro-American cultural context than in...
- A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our...
- Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
Origin
Coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970; in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.