Cooperation meaning

kō-ŏp'ə-rā'shən
The definition of cooperation is people working together to achieve results or people helping each other out to achieve a common goal.

An example of cooperation is when one person hands you a brick and you lay the brick.

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The association of a number of people in an enterprise for mutual benefits or profits.
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An interaction between organisms that is largely beneficial to all those participating.
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The act of cooperating; joint effort or operation.
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The act of cooperating or being cooperative.
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An orderly sharing of space or resources.
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Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
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The act or practice of cooperating.
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Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
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Alternative spelling of cooperation.
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The association of persons or businesses for common, usually economic, benefit.
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Origin of cooperation

  • 1620–30, from Middle French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperatio
    From Wiktionary

Cooperation Sentence Examples

  • south-west of the city of Manitowoc, is St Nazianz, an unorganized village near which in 1854 a colony or community of German Roman Catholics was established under the leadership of Father Ambrose Oswald, the primary object being to enable poor people by combination and cooperation to supply themselves with the comforts of life at minimum expense and have as much time as possible left for religious thought and worship. The title of the colony's land was vested in Father Oswald after the panic of 1857 until his death in 1874, when he devised the lands to "the colony founded by me."

  • In the far higher duty of cooperation he had failed miserably.

  • They were also in favour of a closer cooperation with the German democratic element in the State.

  • This form of voluntary cooperation is called moba.

  • But Cambon soon came to the conclusion that the security of France depended upon the triumph of the Mountain, and he did not hesitate to accord his active cooperation to the second committee.

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