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non-cooperation

[non-koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn]

non·co·op·er·a·tion

[non-koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn]
noun
1.
failure or refusal to cooperate.
2.
a method or practice, as that established in India by Gandhi, of showing opposition to acts or policies of the government by refusing to participate in civic and political life or to obey governmental regulations. Compare civil disobedience (def. 1), passive resistance.
Also, non·co-op·er·a·tion.


Origin:
1785–95; non- + cooperation

non·co·op·er·a·tive [non-koh-op-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey-tiv] , adjective
non·co·op·er·a·tor, noun
non·co·op·er·a·tion·ist, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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