'Cooperation' definitions:
Definition of 'cooperation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission" [ant: competition, contention, rivalry]
noun
The practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"
Definition of 'Cooperation'
From: GCIDE
- Cooperation \Co*["o]p`er*a"tion\, n. [L. cooperatio: cf. F. coop['e]ration.]
- 1. The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. [1913 Webster]
- Not holpen by the cooperation of angels. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cooperation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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
Words containing 'Cooperation'
- Cooper,
- Cooperant,
- Cooperate,
- Cooperated,
- Cooperating,
- Cooperative,
- Cooperator,
- Coopered,
- Coopering,
- cooperatively,
- cooperativeness,
- Cooper City,
- Cooper County,
- Cooper Landing,
- Cooper beech,
- Cooper's flag,
- Cooper, MO,
- Cooper, TX,
- Cooperative society,
- Cooperative store,
- cooper union,
- cooper's hawk,
- frank cooper,
- gary cooper,
- peter cooper,
- Cooper City, FL,
- Cooper County, MO,
- Cooper Landing, AK,
- james fenimore cooper,
- cooper union for the advancement of science and art