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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cooperation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
whole-hearted support/acceptance/cooperation etc
▪ Montgomery’s new style of leadership met with Leslie’s whole-hearted approval.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bipartisan
▪ Clinton said he offered the deal as a sign of bipartisan cooperation.
▪ Another issue before Congress that will require bipartisan cooperation is campaign finance reform.
close
▪ With his death the close cooperation between these two organisations, initiated by Ayliffe and William McDougall, came to an end.
▪ Even so, a spirit of close cooperation and bonhomie was generated, contributing much to the success of the Workshop.
▪ We must all work together in close cooperation to provide the best possible service for our clients.
▪ Finally, we emphasise that close cooperation between microbiologists and clinicians is important.
▪ All parents are made to feel welcome as we fully appreciate the value of close cooperation between home and School.
▪ To many, the postwar economic problems of the continent demanded a substantial element of very close cooperation.
▪ She hoped that the two countries would develop a better relationship and undertake closer cooperation.
▪ The organisation of this has only been possible with the close cooperation and support of District Managers, and their designated staff.
full
▪ Our role in each of these investigations was proper, appropriate, and done in full cooperation with other agencies.
great
▪ In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press.
▪ And we received a great deal of cooperation from them.
▪ With strict procedures and a great deal of cooperation it is likely that you will not receive a virus.
▪ To pray for the great creature's cooperation in tomorrow's activity.
▪ They demanded child-care provisions and greater cooperation from men in domestic work.
▪ The Children Act 1989 also requires greater cooperation between departments where the needs of children with disabilities are concerned.
international
▪ The Foundation has been delighted to be able to sow the seeds of international cooperation by supporting postgraduates.
▪ Today it is a growing possibility that international cooperation will stall.
▪ These initiatives are intended to strengthen the infrastructure for research, expand knowledge in computer technology, and further international scientific cooperation.
▪ The task is formidable and impossible to achieve without international cooperation.
▪ With the need for international cooperation more urgent than ever, there were still as many frontiers as in any earlier age.
▪ The one major attempt at international cooperation has turned sour.
▪ It seemed to be a triumph for international cooperation and reason.
military
▪ Separate agreements were signed on military cooperation and on the formation of an intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific co-operation.
mutual
▪ This respectable sum is called the Reward for mutual cooperation.
▪ A good marriage is obviously a nonzero sum game, brimming with mutual cooperation.
▪ Most of the game is spent in mutual cooperation, with both players enjoying the consequent generous score.
■ VERB
develop
▪ Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
▪ It helped to develop skills of cooperation and communication.
encourage
▪ One factor, already mentioned, is the demand of social experience, which encourages cooperation and a consistency in affective life.
ensure
▪ Hence a social contract can ensure stable cooperation only if it reads' I will cooperate.
▪ This awareness, in itself, is believed to generate sufficient grief to restore and ensure cooperation.
increase
▪ Much of the progress achieved in studies of Quaternary environmental change has involved increasing amounts of interdisciplinary cooperation.
▪ The action reversed a trend in which the two countries appeared to be edging ever so slightly toward increased cooperation.
▪ The moves also came amid increased cooperation over immigration issues following a 1994 flood of refugees.
▪ Bauman recommended increased cooperation between the public and private groups that would respond to an emergency.
need
▪ The network will also need Telecom's cooperation to distribute traffic in areas without microwave links.
▪ We needed employee cooperation, but maintained institutional policies that encouraged competition.
▪ On the global stage, a stronger United Nations will be needed to underpin cooperation in tackling the world's problems.
pledge
▪ Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign.
promote
▪ Peers working together minimize the pain of some schoolwork, while promoting learning and cooperation for both.
▪ Carrillo managed to keep the peace and promote cooperation among rival drug bosses.
require
▪ Construction and cultivation require cooperation within the family unit and within the community.
▪ Getting these automated systems to work will require cooperation of the politically influential postal unions.
▪ Nevertheless, the process of building and using electronic records will require time, cooperation, money - and confidence about confidentiality.
▪ Another issue before Congress that will require bipartisan cooperation is campaign finance reform.
▪ The Children Act 1989 also requires greater cooperation between departments where the needs of children with disabilities are concerned.
▪ Internationally, the management of resistance problems will require extensive cooperation.
▪ This requires cooperation with other organisational functions.
▪ Our work requires cooperation, although the roots of diversity remain.
seek
▪ One solution is to require staff to seek the cooperation of a colleague who is prepared to accommodate them.
▪ Having determined its legal obligations based on the facts of this specific disease, the company actively sought employee cooperation.
▪ All colleges of education have computer departments who actually seek close cooperation with schools in developing computer use.
▪ S., to seek cooperation in the Persian Gulf.
▪ A seeks the cooperation of B, but lacks the means to impose his will.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Thank you for your cooperation and your participation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A treaty was urgently required and strenuous efforts should be made to secure participation and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
▪ Alternatively, it is treated pleasantly and gently if the magician wishes to secure a person's cooperation.
▪ He could hardly insist on Westbourne's cooperation with the Grand Duke present.
▪ The dynamics of partnership bargaining are hardly propitious for the specific kinds of cooperation that marriage and family require.
▪ The IoT would welcome continued cooperation.
▪ The second period, between age 8 and age 11, evolves around concepts of cooperation.
▪ With the need for international cooperation more urgent than ever, there were still as many frontiers as in any earlier age.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cooperation

Cooperation \Co*["o]p`er*a"tion\, n. [L. co["o]peratio: cf. F. coop['e]ration.]

  1. The act of co["o]perating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.

    Not holpen by the co["o]peration of angels.
    --Bacon.

  2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cooperation

late 15c., from Middle French coopération, or directly from Late Latin cooperationem (nominative cooperatio) "a working together," noun of action from past participle stem of cooperari "to work together," from com- "with" (see com-) + operari "to work" (see operation).

Wiktionary
cooperation

n. 1 (context usually uncountable English) The act of cooperate. 2 Active help from a person, organization, etc., such as an orderly sharing of space or resources. 3 association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.

WordNet
cooperation

  1. n. joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission" [ant: competition]

  2. the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"

Wikipedia
Cooperation

Cooperation (sometimes written as co-operation or coöperation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common or mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. Many animal and plant species cooperate both with other members of their own species and with members of other species ( symbiosis or mutualism).

Cooperation (disambiguation)

Cooperation:

  • Cooperation - as used in the social sciences.
  • Co-operation (evolution) - co-operative behaviors in biology
  • Cooperative - economic model

Usage examples of "cooperation".

Emerson will always be kindly remembered by one and all for his cooperation, and nobody will ever again try to hand him the phonus bolonus when he is buying champagne, even if he is not buying it off of Dave the Dude.

The clearest demand for world-wide cooperation before the war, came from the Second International.

A more satisfactory working relationship I have never had, and I am convinced that many dogs and men were saved by our cooperation.

But General Domingo has been ordered by your President to give us full cooperation.

He has been specially urging the friends to have the Cause well represented in all Esperanto Congresses and associations, and by this means cultivate greater friendship and cooperation between them and the Esperantists.

Cooperation, as viewed by the Europeanists, meant meeting French demands.

Quite accustomed to seeing their requests for cooperation ignored in over half the states, to seeing their loaned files unaccountably become missing, to see the quarry suddenly disappear after an anonymous tip-off, the Z men worked on as best they might at a task they realized was not in accordance with the wishes of the majority of their fellow countrymen.

A normal condition of the entire body depends upon perfect and continuous functioning of the liver in cooperation with all the other vital organs.

Therefore, I shall require your cooperation - and I shall expect Gats Hackett to keep entirely out of the affair.

Treaty of Mospheira which calls for experimental contacts in science leading to agreements of definition and unequivocal terminology, with a view to future intercultural cooperations under the appointment of appropriate atevi officials.

If only the learning experience there could be modified to include at least occasional interethnic cooperation toward mutual successes, perhaps cross-group friendships would have a place to grow.

Marine Corps forces was innovative insofar as it required tight interservice cooperation and a streamlined command structure.

At the same time parliamentary circles learned that Foreign Minister Kanya had communicated to the ambassadors of our country in Berlin, London, and Paris, and that he personally had communicated the same to Knox, British Ambassador to Budapest, that Hungary was going to request in a note from Czechoslovakia to allow the fate of those territories in which Hungarians lived in majority to be decided by popular vote and that he had the cooperation of Poland in this matter also.

We go to Mars in the spirit of the new pragmatic cooperation among the nations of the world.

He had agreed, against his deepest instincts as a soldier, to accept this diplomatic post in the hope he might be able to help turn Earth and Minbar away from a dangerous militarism and xenophobia he had perceived growing on both worlds, attitudes that could threaten the cooperation between them that until now had kept the peace among many different worlds.