cooperates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of cooperate.
The new manager cooperates closely with the legal department on every contract.
Each agency cooperates with the others to coordinate the disaster response.
Note
The -s form that agrees with a singular subject: she cooperates, the agency cooperates, but they cooperate. It usually needs no object and takes with before the partner (cooperates with the legal department). In legal jargon it can also take a direct object, meaning to win over a potential witness, as in a prosecutor cooperates a witness. That transitive use is best kept to that setting.
cooperates is a form of cooperate
cooperate, verb: To work or act together with others, especially toward a common purpose or shared benefit. Full entry
- Forms
- cooperatecooperates he/she/itcooperating -ing formcooperated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- cooperate → cooperates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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