cooperation
Pluralcooperations (some meanings)
- 1Working together with other people to get something done.
Cooperation between the two teams made the job much easier.
Building the treehouse took a lot of cooperation.
Similarcollaboration, teamwork, partnership
Oppositecompetition
- 2Active help from a person or group, such as sharing space or supplies in an organized way.
The police asked for the public's cooperation in finding the lost child.
Thanks to the neighbors' cooperation, everyone found a parking spot during the street fair.
Similarassistance, help, support
- 3People joining together in a group so that everyone gains, for example by making or buying things together.
Through cooperation, the small farms bought feed together and paid less for it.
The village store runs on cooperation, and every family owns a share of it.
Practice
Can you tell the meanings of cooperation apart? Answer 3 quick questions from this page, or write your own sentence and AI will check it.
Origin
It came into English from French in the 1600s. It can be seen as "co-" plus "operation".