cooperate
See also: coöperate and co-operate
English
editAlternative forms
edit- co-operate (UK), coöperate (uncommon)
Etymology
editOriginated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperatus (“work with”). See co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/, /kuˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /koʊˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/, /kuˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəʉˈɔp.ə.ɹæɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɒpəɹeɪt
Verb
editcooperate (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.
- (law jargon, transitive) To obtain the cooperation of (a potential witness); to turn (someone) into a cooperating witness.[1]
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.[2]
Synonyms
editRelated terms
edit- cooperation (noun)
- cooperative (adjective; noun)
- cooperator (agent noun)
Translations
editto work together
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function in harmony, side by side
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References
edit- ^ Liberman, Mark and various commenters (2024), “‘Cooperate him’”, in Language Log.
- ^ cooperate,co-operate at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editcooperate
- inflection of cooperare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editcooperate f pl
Latin
editParticiple
editcooperāte
Spanish
editVerb
editcooperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cooperar combined with te
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