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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cooperate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ Social services departments cooperate closely with voluntary organizations concerned with the welfare of deprived children.
fully
▪ We're prepared to cooperate fully with any security council inquiry.
▪ She cooperated fully in the project in a most commendable spirit of scientific interest.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ Liggett had emerged from the pack to cooperate with authorities over cigarettes.
▪ Amid an increasingly hostile war of words, Finley has criticized Racicot for reneging on a promise to cooperate with federal authorities.
▪ For safety they should cooperate when local authorities display signs, warning that the seashore is dangerous.
▪ The Home Office was willingly cooperating with other authorities to ensure the events passed off peacefully and with due respect.
company
▪ Cable companies are cooperating to establish fiber networks involving different operators so that they can compete with the telephone companies.
▪ The companies have talked about cooperating on future products, these people say.
government
▪ Local governments, too, cooperated, glad to have their economy boomed for them.
▪ Dole believes in making government function by cooperating, compromising and working out the inevitable disagreements of a diverse society.
investigation
▪ Republicans have questioned whether the money was intended to encourage Hubbell not to cooperate with investigations into the Whitewater affair.
▪ All the charges stem from Conoline's refusal to cooperate with an investigation into a botched Dec. 7 drug bust.
▪ He is apparently cooperating with the investigation.
war
▪ Under the law, the United States suspends all assistance programs to any country not certified as cooperating in the drug war.
■ VERB
agree
▪ Five members of the network pleaded guilty, and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution.
▪ The Orthodox agreed to cooperate, but balked at merging the two efforts.
▪ Then the members might agree to cooperate, and to join in punishing any member who defects.
▪ After confessing, Flores agreed to cooperate with investigators.
▪ After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
▪ Williams, 26, pleaded guilty to extortion on Jan. 28 and agreed to cooperate with the government.
▪ As part of her plea agreement, she agreed to cooperate with federal officials and received two years' probation.
continue
▪ Stanford has so far indicated it will continue to cooperate with the magazine.
fail
▪ Moreover it fails to cooperate with Nature, which makes us all originals, with no two faces or two minds alike.
▪ The commission said it could revive the subpoenas if the editors failed to cooperate with the inquiry, which opens this week.
refuse
▪ Finally, the idea that the big financial institutions are a law unto themselves and would refuse to cooperate is a myth.
▪ Diem, having rejected it, refused to cooperate, and the United States backed him.
▪ It empowered local councils to enter gardens and cut down problem hedges if their owners refuse to cooperate.
▪ When appearing in court, all three men refused to cooperate, claiming the government has no jurisdiction.
▪ Rex refused to cooperate when he realized that what Minter was really looking for was a scandal - any scandal.
▪ The two families were so angry that they refused to talk or cooperate with the hospital personnel.
▪ The committee also criticised him for refusing to cooperate with the Standards Commissioner, Elizabeth Filkin.
▪ The new problem was the weather it refused to cooperate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Aid agencies and UN forces are cooperating to get food supplies to the people who need them.
▪ Finance ministers and central bankers agreed to cooperate closely to sustain the strength of the pound.
▪ The administration is willing to cooperate and work toward peace.
▪ The president said that Mexico would continue to cooperate with the US in the fight against drugs.
▪ Traditionally management has called upon workers to cooperate in increasing productivity.
▪ We'll be all right if the weather cooperates.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Katherine remembers it, I was so thrilled with the compliment that I cooperated from then on.
▪ For safety they should cooperate when local authorities display signs, warning that the seashore is dangerous.
▪ Hernandez and Brown said they anticipate that Congress will cooperate and grant the city Medicare and Medicaid waivers.
▪ Roman Catholics, however, emphasizing the role of free will, believe that humans can cooperate in their salvation through actions.
▪ Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.
▪ Then the members might agree to cooperate, and to join in punishing any member who defects.
▪ These three countries agreed to cooperate soon after the Second World War.
▪ Torrez pleaded guilty last March and is cooperating with prosecutors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cooperate

Cooperate \Co*["o]p"er*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Co["o]perated; p. pr. & vb. n. Co["o]perating.] [L. co["o]peratus, p. p. of co["o]perari to co["o]perate; co + operari to work, opus work. See Operate.] To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.

Whate'er co["o]perates to the common mirth.
--Crashaw.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cooperate

also co-operate, c.1600, from Late Latin cooperatus, past participle of cooperari "to work together with" (see cooperation). Related: Cooperated; cooperating.

Wiktionary
cooperate

vb. (context intransitive English) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.

WordNet
cooperate

v. work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" [syn: collaborate, join forces, get together]

Usage examples of "cooperate".

DEA had no concrete proof, the Bahamian government refused to cooperate in producing a search warrant.

Same language, same arrogance, damned sure the same military, since the Brits and Americans cooperated so closely on so many things.

Interviewed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she had gone following her release from jail, Mary Brunner agreed to cooperate with the police in return for immunity in the Hinman murder.

Lafayette himself cooperated for a time with a secret Carbonari plot to overthrow the French regime by force, though most of his political activity took the legal form of speeches, letters, and meetings with liberal deputies.

If McGarvey chose not to cooperate or, as Carrara had warned, if he were taken by surprise, there would be casualties.

The Columbian leader glared at Angela several times during the long journey, and she had tried to look properly scared and willing to cooperate.

Bedlam, which, instead of introducing me to service, was an insurmountable objection to my character, I found myself destitute of all means of subsisting, unless I would condescend to live the infamous and wretched life of a courtezan, an expedient rendered palatable by the terrors of want, cooperating with the reflection of the irretrievable loss I had already sustained.

As earnest of my intention to cooperate fully I described in detail my trip to Deauville to see Dyson.

I explained that some of the heirs and designees did not want to cooperate.

He knows his only hope of avoiding disenfranchisement is to cooperate with me.

Some dogs refused to cooperate, and in desperation, their handlers crawled through the barrel while dragging the dogs through by their leashes.

But if they cooperate as well as the flatfoots on Chata it ought to work okay.

Palestinian Christians suspected Palestinian Muslims, Muslim fundamentalists suspected Communists, pro-Jordanians suspected pro-PLOniks, Hebronites suspected Jerusalemites, the members of one extended family in a village refused to cooperate with those of another.

The movements of a judoka seem unhurried, his victim will appear to cooperate submissively in the performance of the throw.

There was nothing for it: last year Kildare had been sent back to govern Ireland-on condition that he cooperate with the Butlers in the administration.