Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or practice of cooperating.
- n. The association of persons or businesses for common, usually economic, benefit.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of cooperating or being cooperative.
- n. Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
- n. An orderly sharing of space or resources.
- n. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
Etymologies
- 1620–30, from Middle French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperatio (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When Tit-for-Tat is inoperative, anarchism can achieve mutual cooperation only if all agents always choose to act cooperatively even when its physically possible to defect and exploit others 'cooperation*.”
“We can only hope that Calderon can throw the cartels on the defensive, gain cooperation from a frightened public which is reluctant to trust police, and start controlling the drug kingpins -- whose organizations seem in the meantime to be decentralizing and squabbling over territory.”
“The word cooperation means to work together toward a common end or purpose; however, I found that some of the students acted as if their common purpose was to put an end to my work!”
“Practice in cooperation is what will give the United Nations its character.”
“The U.S. believes the cooperation is a good thing and won't undermine its close military relationship with the U.K.,”
The Wall Street Journal: U.K., France Move Closer on Defense
“I mean, I don't know what they call cooperation if that's not cooperating.”
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Will JonBenet Ramsey's Murder Ever Be Solved? - May 4, 2000
“This cooperation is achieved partly by cells communicating with each other through chemical signals.”
“That is what we call cooperation among the industries.”
“I do know that French Canadians feel proud that they are cooperating with the rest of us and that perhaps for the first time their cooperation is appreciated.”
“Last week, the two countries pledged what they called cooperation on humanitarian issues, more than a year after the deadly 2008 terror strikes in Mumbai froze their peace dialogue.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cooperation’.
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SEDE - military policy and diplomacy
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SEDE - principles and indicators
information security, balance of power, compliance with t..., air superiority, combat compability, compatibility, convergence, countermobility, discipline of eff..., discipline of staff, interoperability, leadership capabi... and 184 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
america, american, arithmetic, attacked, barack, believe, better, bill, budget, care, class, college and 86 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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UO Digi-Scholars List
A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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The Golden Rule
TABLE OF PROPOSED RULES TO LIVE BY
The Golden Rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The Silver Rule Do not do unto others what you would not have them do un...ethics, reciprocity, silver rule, karma, tit for tat, newton's third law, virtue, temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, humanity and 44 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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co-
together; joint; equally; complement of
Note: stem can varycosign, cooperation, co-owner, coextensive, cosine, colleague, commingle, convulse, correlate, cohabitate
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Cooperation Theory
Important Terms that have come up during the course of Howard Rheingold's course on Intro To Cooperation Theory http...
exaptation, coevolution, symbiogenesis, reciprocity, cooperation, collaboration, Usufruct
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WrightHandWords's Words
yclept, unction, prana, satya, abhyasa, vairagya, yoga, ashtanga, acronym, etymology, asana, widget and 286 more...
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