Meaning of COOPERATION
| Pronunciation: | | kow`âpu'reyshun
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- [n] the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"
- [n] joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission"
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| | Antonyms: | | competition, contention, rivalry | | |
| | See Also: | | abidance, allegiance, coaction, collaboration, commitment, compliance, compromise, concurrence, conformation, conformity, dedication, group action, loyalty, pattern, practice, quislingism, rapprochement, reconciliation, representation, selflessness, self-sacrifice, teamwork, via media | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Co*["o]p`er*a"tion\, n. [L. co["o]peratio: cf. F.
coop['e]ration.]
1. The act of co["o]perating, or of operating together to one
end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
Not holpen by the co["o]peration of angels. --Bacon.
2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for
their benefit.
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| | Related Terms: | | accompaniment, accord, accordance, advocacy, affiliation, affinity, agreement, aid, alliance, alternation, assent, assistance, association, auspices, backing, backup, battledore and shuttlecock, blessing, cahoots, chorus, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, commutation, companionship, company, compatibility, complementary distribution, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consociation, consonance, consort, conspiracy, cooperative society, correspondence, counterchange, co-working, cross fire, democracy, engagement, equivalence, exchange, favor, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, friendship, give-and-take, harmony, help, helping hand, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intersection, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, junction, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lex talionis, measure for measure, membership, mesh, meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partaking, participation, patronage, peace, permutation, profit sharing, public ownership, quid pro quo, rapport, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, saprophytism, seesaw, self-consistency, sharecropping, sharing, simultaneity, socialism, society, something for something, sponsorship, state ownership, support, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synergism, synergy, tally, teamwork, timing, tit for tat, town meeting, transposal, transposition, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action |
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