1. To contend or to strive; especially, to deal with or to struggle with difficulties and to overcome them: An administrator must cope with or manage many business problems every day.
2. Etymology: "come to blows with", from Old French couper, earlier colper, "to hit, to punch", from colp, "a blow". © ALL rights are reserved.

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