cooperate

See also: coöperate and co-operate

English

Alternative forms

• co-operate (UK), coöperate (uncommon)

Etymology

Originated 1595–1605 from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin cooperatus (“work with”). See co- + operate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈɒpəɹeɪt/, /kuˈɒpəɹeɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To allow for mutual unobstructed action
3. (intransitive) To function in harmony, side by side
4. (intransitive) To engage in economic cooperation.

Usage notes

The usual pronunciation of 'oo' is /uː/ or /ʊ/. The dieresis in the spelling coöperate emphasizes that the second o begins a separate syllable. However, the dieresis is becoming increasingly rare in US English typography, so the spelling cooperate predominates. See also Appendix:Dieresis.

Synonyms

• to coact
• co-op
• make common cause

Related terms

• cooperative
• cooperation
• cooperator

Translations

to work together

• Arabic: تَعَاوَنَ (taʕāwana)
• Armenian: համագործակցել (hy) (hamagorcakcʻel)
• Belarusian: супрацо́ўнічаць impf (supracóŭničacʹ)
• Bulgarian: сътру́днича (bg) impf (sǎtrúdniča)
• Catalan: cooperar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協力／协力 (zh) (xiélì), 协力 (zh) (xiélì)

• Czech: spolupracovat (cs) impf
• Danish: samarbejde
• Dutch: samenwerken (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlabori, kunagi
• Finnish: tehdä yhteistyötä, toimia yhteistyössä
• French: coopérer (fr), collaborer (fr)
• Galician: cooperar (gl)
• German: zusammenarbeiten (de), kooperieren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: συμπράσσω (sumprássō)

• Hebrew: לשתף פעולה (leshatef pe'ula)
• Hindi: सहयोग करना (sahyog karnā)
• Hungarian: együttműködik (hu), kooperál (hu)
• Icelandic: vinna saman
• Italian: cooperare (it)
• Japanese: 協力する (ja) (きょうりょくする, kyōryoku suru)
• Korean: 협력하다 (ko) (hyeomnyeokhada)
• Lao: ຮ່ວມໝູ່ (hūam mū)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: bendradarbiauti (lt)
• Luxembourgish: cooperéieren
• Macedonian: соработува impf (sorabotuva)
• Norwegian: samarbeide (no)
• Old English: efenwyrċan
• Polish: współpracować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: cooperar (pt), colaborar (pt)
• Quechua: yanapay
• Romanian: coopera (ro)
• Russian: сотру́дничать (ru) impf (sotrúdničatʹ), коопери́ровать (ru) impf (kooperírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сарађивати impf, сурађивати impf

  Roman: sarađivati (sh) impf, surađivati impf

• Slovak: spolupracovať impf
• Slovene: sodelovati impf
• Spanish: cooperar (es)
• Swedish: samarbeta (sv), samverka (sv)
• Telugu: సహకరించు (te) (sahakariñcu)
• Thai: ร่วมมือ (th) (rûuam-mʉʉ)
• Ukrainian: співпрацюва́ти impf (spivpracjuváty)
• Vietnamese: cộng tác (vi)
• Welsh: cydweithio (cy)

function in harmony, side by side

• Danish: samspille
• German: harmonieren (de), zusammenspielen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: samspela

References

• “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.

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Italian

Verb

cooperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of cooperare
2. second-person plural imperative of cooperare
3. feminine plural of cooperato

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) cooperāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cooperātus