cooperation
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
1620–30, from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō.
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
cooperation (countable and uncountable, plural cooperations)
- (usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
- 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.
Audio (US): (file)
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
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Translations
act of cooperating or being cooperative
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active help from a person, organization, et cetera
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association for mutual benefit
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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)
- Obsolete form of coopération.
Middle French
Noun
cooperation f (plural cooperations)
- 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.
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