cooperate
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Definition
- Verb (Intransitive):
- To work or act together with one or more other people or groups towards a shared goal or purpose. It involves joint effort, collaboration, and often a willingness to assist or comply with others.
Usage and Examples
Basic Usage: The verb "cooperate" describes the act of collaborative work. It is often followed by the preposition "with" to indicate the other party.
- The two companies agreed to cooperate on the new environmental initiative.
- For the project to succeed, all departments must cooperate.
- The witness refused to cooperate with the police investigation.
Grammatical Note: "Cooperate" is typically used without a direct object (intransitively). The collaboration is with someone (cooperate with someone) or on something (cooperate on a project).
Advanced Usage and Nuances
- "Cooperate fully": To provide complete and unreserved assistance.
- The management promised to cooperate fully with the audit.
- Implied Condition: The word can sometimes imply a conditional or necessary relationship for success.
- The machine will only function if all its components cooperate. (Here, it is used metaphorically.)
Variants and Related Words
- Cooperation (noun): The process or instance of working together.
- International cooperation is essential to solve climate change.
- Cooperative (adjective): Involving or based on mutual assistance. (adjective) / An organization owned and run jointly by its members. (noun)
- She was very cooperative during the interview.
- They buy their food from a farmers' cooperative.
Synonyms
- Collaborate: Emphasizes working together, especially on an intellectual or creative project.
- Work together: A more general and direct phrase.
- Team up: Suggests forming a team for a specific purpose.
- Join forces: Emphasizes combining resources or efforts.
Phrasal Verbs / Common Constructions
- Cooperate with (someone/something): The standard construction to indicate the partner in collaboration.
- The software is designed to cooperate with existing systems.
- Cooperate on (something): Used to specify the shared task or project.
- Scientists from several countries are cooperating on the vaccine research.
Related Idioms
- (To be) in cooperation with: A formal phrase indicating a collaborative relationship.
- This event is held in cooperation with the city council.
Verb
- work together on a common enterprise of project
- The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well
- We joined forces with another research group