cooperation

• co-operation
• coöperation

First attested in 1620–1630. Borrowed from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō. By surface analysis, co- +‎ operation.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [kɵwäpʰəˈɹe̞jʃɪn]

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

cooperation (countable and uncountable, plural cooperations)

1. (usually uncountable) The act of cooperating.
2. Active help from a person, organization, etc., such as an orderly sharing of space or resources.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korea is seeking cooperation from China to produce artificial rain to help fight increasing pollution.

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3. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.

• competition

• noncooperation

• cooperative

• cooperation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cooperation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “cooperation”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "cooperation" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. Obsolete form of coopération.

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. cooperation
   • 1488, La Mer des Histoires:

     Dieu au commencement avoit fait l'omme, c'est assavoir Adam sans cooperation de homme et de femme

     At the beginning, God had made man, that is to say Adam without the cooperation between man and woman

• Etymology and history of “coopération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.