Cooperation

Noun

 * 1) The act of cooperating or being cooperative.
 * 2) Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
 * 3) An orderly sharing of space or resources.
 * 4) Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.

Adjectives for Cooperation
peaceful; matchless; loyal; genuine; courteous; close; harmonious; wise; generous advantageous;  wholesome;   benevolent municipal; unwavering; active; constant cordial; constructive; munificent; emotional; agricultural; merchandising; public; international; pontifical; hearty; voluntary; stabilizing; spontaneous; sympathetic; immense; universal; conscious; indispensable successful; powerful.

Verbs for Cooperation
act in—with; advocate—;  balk  at— court—;   develop—;   display—;   dispose toward—;  effect—;  enlist—;  exhibit—; foster—; lack—; necessitate—; pledge—; practise—; result in—; stress—; teach—; urge—; work in—with; —helps; —overcomes; —produces; —saves.

Thesaurus
meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partaking, participation, patronage, peace, permutation, profit sharing, public ownership, quid pro quo, rapport, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, saprophytism, seesaw, self-consistency, sharecropping, sharing, simultaneity, socialism, society, something for something, sponsorship, state ownership, support, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synergism, synergy, tally, teamwork, timing, tit for tat, town meeting, transposal, transposition, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, accompaniment, accord, accordance, advocacy, affiliation, affinity, agreement, aid, alliance, alternation, assent, assistance, association, auspices, backing, backup, battledore and shuttlecock, blessing, cahoots, chorus, co-working, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, commutation, companionship, company, compatibility, complementary distribution, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consociation, consonance, consort, conspiracy, cooperative society, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, democracy, engagement, equivalence, exchange, favor, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, friendship, give-and-take, harmony, help, helping hand, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intersection, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, junction, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lex talionis, measure for measure, membership, mesh,

Etymology
1620–30, from cooperation:, from  cooperatio:

Related terms

 * cooperative

Alternative forms

 * co-operation, coöperation

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Samewerking
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تعاون
 * Basque: elkarlan
 * Bulgarian: сътрудничество
 * Chinese: (hézuò), / (xiézuò)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, yhteistoiminta
 * German: Zusammenarbeit
 * Greek: (synergasía)


 * Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shituf pe'ula)
 * Icelandic: samvinna, samstarf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cooperare
 * Russian:, кооперация
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: samarbete
 * Telugu: సహకారం (sahakaaram)


 * Bulgarian: сътрудничество


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: кооперация
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: osuustoiminta


 * Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shituf pe'ula)


 * Bulgarian: симбиоза