cooperation

See also: co-operation, coöperation, and coopération

English

Alternative forms

• co-operation
• coöperation

Etymology

1620–30, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) cooperation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (deprecated template usage) cooperātiō.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

cooperation (countable and uncountable, plural cooperations)

1. (deprecated template usage) (usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
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.

Antonyms

• competition

Related terms

• cooperative

Translations

act of cooperating or being cooperative

• Afrikaans: samewerking
• Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعَاوُن m (taʕāwun)
• Basque: elkarlan (eu)
• Bulgarian: сътрудничество (bg) n (sǎtrúdničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作／协作 (xiézuò), 协作 (zh) (xiézuò)

• Czech: spolupráce (cs) f
• Danish: samarbejde n
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f
• Esperanto: kooperado
• Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), yhteistoiminta
• French: coopération (fr) f
• German: Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kooperation (de) f, Mitarbeit (de) f
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá)
• Hungarian: együttműködés (hu), együttműködő
• 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))
• Norman: co-opéthâtion f (Jersey)
• Persian: همکاری (fa) (hamkâri)
• Portuguese: cooperação (pt) f
• Romanian: cooperare (ro) f
• Russian: сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (ru) f (kooperácija)
• Spanish: cooperación (es)
• Swedish: samarbete (sv) n
• Telugu: సహకారం (sahakāraṁ)
• Vietnamese: sự hợp tác (vi)

active help from a person, organization, et cetera

• Bulgarian: сътрудничество (bg) (sǎtrudničestvo)
• Dutch: coöperatie (nl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: apu (fi), tuki (fi)

association for mutual benefit

• Bulgarian: кооперация (bg) f (kooperacija)
• Dutch: samenwerkingsverband (nl) n, coöperatie (nl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: osuustoiminta
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} симбиоза (bg) f (simbioza)

References

• cooperation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cooperation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “cooperation”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "cooperation" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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French

Noun

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Obsolete form of coopération.

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Middle French

Noun

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. cooperation
   • 1488, La Mer des Histoires

     Dieu au commencement avoit fait l'omme, c'est assavoir Adam sans cooperation de homme et de femme

     At the beginning, God had made man, that is to say Adam without the cooperation between man and woman

References

• Etymology and history of “coopération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.