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cooperate
[
koh-
op
-
uh
-reyt
]
Example Sentences
Origin
co·op·er·ate
/
koʊˈɒp
əˌreɪt
/
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[
koh-
op
-
uh
-reyt
]
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verb (used without object),
-at·ed,
-at·ing.
1.
to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
2.
to work or act with another or other persons willingly and agreeably.
3.
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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to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.
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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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Collins
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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
cooperate
1610s, from L. cooperat-, pp. stem of cooperari (see
cooperation
). Related: Cooperating (1640s).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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