cooperating
- 1Present participle and gerund of cooperate.
Several agencies are cooperating to coordinate the disaster response.
Cooperating closely with the auditors, the firm cleared up the discrepancies within a week.
Note
The -ing form does double duty: agencies are cooperating (a progressive, built with be), and cooperating closely can open a clause on its own. Because cooperate is almost always intransitive, the partner arrives through with, not as a direct object. The exception is legal jargon, where one can cooperate a potential witness, winning their help. The result is a cooperating witness, with the participle placed before a noun like an adjective.
cooperating 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 → cooperating: drop the e, add -ing
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