What is “COOP”?
COOP stands for Sociedad Cooperativa (Spanish), a cooperative used primarily in Dominican Republic, Spain, India. The suffix signals that the business has limited liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Sociedad Cooperativa, a Spanish-language term. It translates literally as “Cooperative society.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as co-op, co-operative, cooperatie, cooperative.
Where it's used
COOP appears in company names registered in the following 4 jurisdictions:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to COOP in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “COOP” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme COOP” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme COOP", "country": "do"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme coop",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"coop"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does COOP stand for?
COOP stands for Sociedad Cooperativa (Spanish), which translates as "Cooperative society".
Is a COOP public or private?
A COOP is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a COOP?
Owners of a COOP have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use COOP?
COOP is used in Dominican Republic, Spain, India, Netherlands.
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