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cooperate

[koh-op-uh-reyt]

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verb (used without object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.

to work or act with another or other persons willingly and agreeably.

to practice economic cooperation.

Also, co-op·er·ate.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Late Latin cooperātus past participle of cooperārī to work with. See co-, operate

Related forms

co·op·er·a·tor, co-op·er·a·tor, noun

un·co·op·er·at·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. collaborate, join, participate.

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Example Sentences

One defendant has died, and two have entered guilty pleas and agreed to cooperate with the authorities.

Efforts to get schools and colleges to cooperate yield both fixes and frustration.

To say that our ancestors lived in a zero sum world is to say that they did not cooperate.

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One defendant has died, and two have entered guilty pleas and agreed to cooperate with the authorities.

Efforts to get schools and colleges to cooperate yield both fixes and frustration.

To say that our ancestors lived in a zero sum world is to say that they did not cooperate.

Few of our closest relatives, the great apes, cooperate with each other as extensively as meerkats.

Humans cooperate on all sorts of issues and tasks, but every so often a member of the group fails to pull his weight.

They're known to help individuals in distress, cooperate in rearing children and may even mourn their dead.

Single-celled protozoa had to cooperate to give rise to the first multicellular animals.

Slaughter to step down and to cooperate with the investigation.

However, it's generally illegal to refuse to cooperate with flight attendants' instructions.

Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source.

Elephants quickly learned to cooperate as a pair on a task that brought them a food reward.

You'll need a lot of friends who can be convinced to cooperate.

The field moves forward by virtue of the fact that people cooperate.

Central banks will continue to cooperate in a limited way in the currency markets.

If they were in a bad mood, they moaned and wouldn't cooperate.

People without money have a greater need to cooperate.

If you don't cooperate against the monsters, you'll die in the caverns, but only the final blow to each monster scores the kill.

Herding obviously does not work, but sometimes even cats have to cooperate.

For public basic research to be useful researchers should cooperate more with private companies.

These social animals cooperate on their preferred prey-large animals such as deer, elk, and moose.

People who don't cooperate are eventually shunned or jailed.

But first, the boys in uniform have to get over their traditional reluctance to cooperate with civilians.

They simply said that they would not cooperate in choices which did not align with their mission.

The two parks are administered separately but cooperate in wildlife management and scientific research.

The challenge was getting the nanocrystal's electrons to cooperate.

Like wolves on a caribou herd, sailfish cooperate to get their meal.

These states already cooperate in a cap-and-trade scheme to limit the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants.

When plans call for outdoor activities, the weather doesn't always cooperate.

It's up to you to break the ice and get them to cooperate.

Moving in the same direction, is a signal to the dogs, that the leaders have made a decision to cooperate.

Additionally, college science faculty should cooperate with local high schools to develop more-germane curricula and lesson.

At other times they seem to cooperate in herding fish or krill against a shore or even thickets of kelp.

Humans had to cooperate for complex societies to emerge.

Not every higher education has an abundance of people who are willing to collaborate and cooperate when change is in the wind.

What a verge population to keep in harmony without any civil wars, and cooperate with government is not easy my friend.

Kurland had decided not to cooperate with investigators despite his guilty plea.

There is not much incentive to cooperate outside your own research group.

For example, parents who are emotionally attached to each other are more likely to cooperate effectively in raising young.

The locals would have to cooperate to make the reserve work.

Harbin is almost certain to receive a much lighter sentence for agreeing to cooperate.

Not one suggestion in this article that it is in everyone's interest to cooperate and change.

Scientists hope to cooperate with locals to launch studies of the giants.

It is the rule and not the exception that governments cooperate to create bubbles such as our still collapsing housing bubble.

His attorney says he is willing to cooperate with authorities.

Rudy agreed to cooperate in a widening investigation into lobbying fraud and influence-peddling.

Then willing local governments should cooperate in those areas.

They didn't cooperate in the actual reverse engineering itself.

Kofman's father in an effort to get him to instruct his son to cooperate but that the father refused.

Cooperate and seek commitment by the counterparty, playing a clean game from the beginning.

Countries frequently cooperate to enact trade agreements.

Satellite temp measurements have been refusing to cooperate with the blame humans for global warming movement.

Virome and microbiome coexist peacefully, and may even cooperate.

China promised to cooperate in tackling its food safety problems but urged a quick resolution.

If the people choose not to cooperate with their tyranny, it cannot long stand.

Humanity needs to cooperate to solve it's problems and there is enough wealth that children should not have to live in poverty.

Quattrone violated bank policy by choosing not to cooperate with the investigation.

Nor is it wrong to refuse to cooperate with such moral ugliness.

Advertisers usually get to design their own ads, but in the case of iAd, they need to cooperate extensively with.

Biegenwald and agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of the convicted.

Powell's is large enough to have its own site, but the smaller sellers must cooperate to compete.

We cooperate fully with the border police and the fishing authorities to take care of this paradise.

They deliberately connect to tracking services so they can cooperate in real time.

With no media do humans cooperate so intimately as video games.

Abebe feared being arrested if he did not cooperate with the authorities.

China will cooperate on anything as long as it is mutually beneficial and respectable.

Thus, the bacteria and the innate immune system appear to cooperate to keep a full immune response from occurring.

New research on salmonella illustrate how even simple organisms appear to cooperate for the greater good of their species.

In order for one character to move somewhere on the screen the other player must cooperate and move in the same.

Harris invited the public to cooperate in the inspection.

Life keeps finding ways to cooperate in larger symbiotic wholes.

It is significant because thousands of defendants offer to cooperate with federal authorities every.

They're showing all the signs of refusing to cooperate or choose an obvious side so as to let you go through quickly.

The next problem is to somehow persuade the tenant to cooperate in the sale by allowing prospective buyers to see the property.

Bowman also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors' investigation of the company.

And even if he did cooperate and was reinstated, he would still face a decision on the grievance against him.

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World English Dictionary

cooperate or co-operate (kəʊˈɒpəˌreɪt)

—vb
1.	to work or act together
2.	to be of assistance or be willing to assist
3.	economics (of firms, workers, consumers, etc) to engage in economic cooperation

[C17: from Late Latin cooperārī to work with, combine, from Latin operārī to work]

co-operate or co-operate

—vb

[C17: from Late Latin cooperārī to work with, combine, from Latin operārī to work]

co'operator or co-operate

—n

co-'operator or co-operate

—n

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Word Origin & History

cooperate

1610s, from L. cooperat-, pp. stem of cooperari (see cooperation). Related: Cooperating (1640s).

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"We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions."

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