cooperation

See also: coopération, coöperation, coöpération, and co-operation

English

Alternative forms

• co-operation
• coöperation

Etymology

1620–30, from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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• IPA^(key): /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

cooperation (countable and uncountable, plural cooperations)

1. (usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
2. Active help from a person, organization, etc., such as an orderly sharing of space or resources.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korea is seeking cooperation from China to produce artificial rain to help fight increasing pollution.

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3. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.

Antonyms

• competition

Derived terms

• noncooperation

Related terms

• cooperative

Translations

act of cooperating or being cooperative

• Afrikaans: samewerking
• Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعَاوُن m (taʕāwun)
• Armenian: կոոպերացիա (hy) (kooperacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: əməkdaşlıq (az)
• Basque: elkarlan (eu)
• Belarusian: супрацо́ўніцтва n (supracóŭnictva), каапера́цыя f (kaapjerácyja)
• Breton: kenlabour m
• Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (bg) n (sǎtrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (bg) f (kooperácija)
• Catalan: cooperació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作／协作 (zh) (xiézuò)

• Czech: spolupráce (cs) f
• Danish: samarbejde (da) n
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f
• Esperanto: kooperado
• Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)
• French: coopération (fr) f
• Georgian: თანამშრომლობა (tanamšromloba)
• German: Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kooperation (de) f, Mitarbeit (de) f
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía)

  Ancient: συνεργία f (sunergía)

• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá), שִׁתּוּף m (shitúf)
• Hindi: सहयोग (hi) m (sahyog)
• Hungarian: együttműködés (hu), kooperáció (hu)
• Icelandic: samvinna f, samstarf n
• Indonesian: kerja sama (id)
• Italian: cooperazione (it) f
• Japanese: 協力 (ja) (きょうりょく, kyōryoku)
• Korean: 협력(協力) (ko) (hyeomnyeok)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sadarbība f
• Lithuanian: kooperacija f
• Macedonian: соработка f (sorabotka), кооперација f (kooperacija)
• Malayalam: സഹകരണം (ml) (sahakaraṇaṁ)
• Norman: co-opéthâtion f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samarbeid (no) n

  Nynorsk: samarbeid n

• Occitan: cooperacion f
• Old English: efnwyrċing f
• Persian: همکاری (fa) (hamkâri)
• Polish: współpraca (pl) f, kooperacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: cooperação (pt) f
• Romanian: cooperare (ro) f, conlucrare (ro), cooperație (ro) f
• Russian: сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (ru) f (kooperácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сарадња f, кооперација f

  Roman: saradnja (sh) f, kooperacija (sh) f

• Slovak: spolupráca f
• Slovene: sodelovanje n
• Spanish: cooperación (es)
• Swedish: samarbete (sv) n, samverkan (sv) c, kooperation (sv) c
• Tagalog: pakikitulong
• Telugu: సహకారం (te) (sahakāraṁ)
• Thai: ความร่วมมือ (th) (kwaam-rûuam-mʉʉ)
• Ukrainian: співробі́тництво (uk) n (spivrobítnyctvo), співпра́ця (uk) f (spivprácja), коопера́ція (uk) f (kooperácija)
• Vietnamese: sự hợp tác (vi)
• Yoruba: ìfọwọ́sowọ́pọ̀

active help from a person, organization, et cetera

• Bulgarian: сътрудничество (bg) (sǎtrudničestvo)
• Dutch: coöperatie (nl) f
• Finnish: apu (fi), tuki (fi)
• Hungarian: segítség (hu), segítségnyújtás (hu), segítőkészség (hu)
• Polish: kooperacja (pl) f

association for mutual benefit

• Afrikaans: koöperasie
• Bulgarian: кооперация (bg) f (kooperacija)
• Danish: kooperation c
• Dutch: samenwerkingsverband (nl) n, coöperatie (nl) f
• Finnish: osuustoiminta (fi)
• French: coopérative (fr) f
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá)
• Indonesian: koperasi (id)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cooperație (ro) f, cooperativă (ro) f
• Tagalog: tulungan, pakikitulong
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

References

• cooperation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cooperation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “cooperation”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "cooperation" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

French

Noun

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. Obsolete form of coopération.

Middle French

Noun

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. cooperation
   • 1488, La Mer des Histoires:

     Dieu au commencement avoit fait l'omme, c'est assavoir Adam sans cooperation de homme et de femme

     At the beginning, God had made man, that is to say Adam without the cooperation between man and woman

References

• Etymology and history of “coopération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.