cooperate
See also: coöperate and co-operate
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- co-operate (UK), coöperate (uncommon)
Etymology edit
Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperatus (“work with”). See co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /koʊˈɒpəɹeɪt/, /kuˈɒpəɹeɪt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpəɹeɪt
Verb edit
cooperate (third-person singular simple present cooperates, present participle cooperating, simple past and past participle cooperated)
- (intransitive) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
- In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
- (intransitive) To allow for mutual unobstructed action
- (intransitive) To function in harmony, side by side
- (intransitive) To engage in economic cooperation.
Usage notes edit
- The usual pronunciation of 'oo' is /uː/ or /ʊ/. The dieresis in the spelling coöperate – now obsolete outside the pages of The New Yorker – was intended to emphasize that the second o begins a separate syllable.
- The solid form is much more common than the hyphenated form in both British and American corpora. The hyphenated form used to be more common in British usage, but is no more.[1]
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
- cooperation (noun)
- cooperative (adjective; noun)
- cooperator (agent noun)
Translations edit
to work together
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function in harmony, side by side
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References edit
Further reading edit
- “cooperate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “cooperate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “cooperate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "cooperate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
cooperate
- inflection of cooperare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
cooperate f pl
Latin edit
Participle edit
cooperāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
cooperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cooperar combined with te