cooperation

See also co-operation, and coöperation

English

Alternative forms

• co-operation, coöperation

Etymology

1620–30, from Middle French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

cooperation (uncountable)

1. The act of cooperating or being cooperative.
2. Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
3. An orderly sharing of space or resources.
4. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.

Antonyms

• competition

Related terms

• cooperative

Translations

act of cooperating or being cooperative

• Afrikaans: samewerking (af)
• Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m
• Arabic: تعاون (ar) (taʿāwun) m
• Basque: elkarlan (eu)
• Bulgarian: сътрудничество (bg) (sǎtrúdničestvo) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (cmn) (hézuò), 協作 (cmn), 协作 (cmn) (xiézuò)

• Czech: spolupráce (cs) f
• Danish: samarbejde (da) n
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f
• Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)
• French: coopération (fr) f
• German: Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kooperation (de) f, Mitarbeit (de) f
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) (synergasía) f (synergasía)

• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (he) (shitúf p'ulá) m
• Hungarian: együttműködés (hu), együttműködő (hu)
• Icelandic: samvinna f, samstarf n
• Italian: cooperazione (it) f
• Japanese: 協力 (ja) (きょうりょく, kyōryoku)
• Korean: 협력 (ko) (hyeomnyeok) (協力 (ko))
• Persian: همکاری (fa) (hamkâri)
• Portuguese: cooperação (pt) f
• Romanian: cooperare (ro) f
• Russian: сотрудничество (ru) (sotrúdničestvo) n, кооперация (ru) (kooperácija) f
• Spanish: cooperación (es)
• Swedish: samarbete (sv) n
• Telugu: సహకారం (sahakaaram)
• Vietnamese: sự hợp tác (vi)

active help from a person, organization, et cetera

• Bulgarian: сътрудничество (bg) (sǎtrudničestvo)

• Finnish: apu (fi), tuki (fi)

orderly sharing of space or resources

• Finnish: yhteiselo (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)

association for mutual benefit

• Bulgarian: кооперация (bg) (kooperacija) f
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f

• Finnish: osuustoiminta (fi)
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (he) (shitúf p'ulá) m

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: симбиоза (bg) (simbioza) f

References

• cooperation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cooperation” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “cooperation” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "cooperation" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.