cooperative
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The children were cooperative and worked together to build a large sandcastle.
Definition
Adjective:
- Involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal: Describes people or groups working together willingly and helpfully.
- Willing to cooperate: Describes a person's attitude as helpful and inclined to work with others.
- Owned and run jointly by its members, who share the benefits: Describes an organization or enterprise structured for the mutual benefit of its participants.
Noun:
- A farm, business, or other organization owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits: A specific type of enterprise based on cooperative principles.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- The project was a success due to the highly cooperative team.
- Please be cooperative and follow the instructions.
- They joined a cooperative grocery store to buy food directly from local farmers.
Noun:
- The farmers formed a cooperative to sell their milk at a better price.
- She buys all her vegetables from the food cooperative.
Advanced Usage
- "in a cooperative manner": Acting with a spirit of teamwork and helpfulness.
- The two departments resolved the issue in a cooperative manner.
Variants and Related Words
- Cooperate (verb): To work together toward the same end.
- The two companies agreed to cooperate on the research.
- Cooperation (noun): The process of working together.
- International cooperation is essential to solve climate change.
- Cooperatively (adverb): In a cooperative way.
- The children worked cooperatively to build the model.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Collaborative, joint, combined, united, helpful, accommodating.
- Noun: Collective, co-op, consortium, association.
Antonyms
- Adjective: Uncooperative, competitive, individualistic, antagonistic.
The children were cooperative and worked together to build a large sandcastle.
Adjective
- willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit
- a cooperative effort
- involving the joint activity of two or more
- concerted action
- the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind
- the conjunctive focus of political opposition
- a cooperative effort
- a united effort
- joint military activities
Noun
- an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it
- a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners