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cooperate

/kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/

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British/kəˈwɔpəɹɛjt/

cooperate verb: to work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.

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Verb

cooperate (third-person singular simple present cooperates, present participle cooperating, simple past and past participle cooperated)

  1. (intransitive) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
    • In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
  2. (intransitive) To allow for mutual unobstructed action.
  3. (intransitive) To function in harmony, side by side.
  4. (intransitive) To engage in economic cooperation.
  5. (jargon, transitive) To obtain the cooperation of (a potential witness); to turn (someone) into a cooperating witness.

cooperate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

cooperate in Hindi

to work together
सहयोग करना sahyog karnā

cooperate in Tamil

to work together
ஒத்துழை ottuḻai
function in harmony, side by side
ஒத்துழை ottuḻai

cooperate in Marathi

सहकार्य करणे

cooperate in Urdu

تعاون کرنا, تعاون کریں
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cooperate in Bengali
সহযোগিতা করা
cooperate in Telugu
సహకరించు sahakariñcu
cooperate in Malayalam
സഹകരിക്കുക, യോജിച്ചു പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, സഹകരിച്ചു പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, കൂട്ടായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക
cooperate in Kannada
ಸಹಕರಿಸು, ಒಂದುಗೂಡಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡು, ಸಹಕಾರ ವೃತ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿರು
cooperate in Punjabi
ਸਹਿਯੋਗ ਕਰਨਾ
cooperate in Gujarati
સહકાર આપવો
cooperate in Odia
ସହଯୋଗ କରିବା
cooperate in Arabic
تَعَاوَنَ taʕāwana
cooperate in Malay
bekerjasama
cooperate in Thai
ร่วมมือ rûuam-mʉʉ
cooperate in Vietnamese
cộng tác

Examples of cooperate in a sentence

  • She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.
  • The board threw the man out, because he wouldn't cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.
  • Regardless of what the other player does, you get a higher payoff by defecting than cooperating.

All 39 example sentences with cooperate

Synonyms of cooperate

All synonyms of cooperate

Forms of cooperate

third-person singular presentcooperates
present participlecooperating
past participlecooperated
pastcooperated
alternative UKco-operate
alternative form (dated)coöperate

Past tense of cooperate: cooperated

Origin of cooperate

Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperātus, perfect passive participle of cooperor (“to work with”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Equivalent to co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.

Words formed from cooperate

Words that rhyme with cooperate

Questions about cooperate

What does cooperate mean?
Cooperate means to work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
What is cooperate in Hindi?
Cooperate in Hindi is सहयोग करना (sahyog karnā). See Cooperate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cooperate?
Cooperate is a verb.
How do you pronounce cooperate?
Cooperate is pronounced /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of cooperate?
The past tense of cooperate is cooperated.

Words near cooperate in the dictionary

  1. cooperads
  2. cooperage
  3. cooperages
  4. cooperant
  5. cooperants
  6. cooperate
  7. cooperated
  8. cooperates
  9. cooperating
  10. cooperating grace
  11. cooperation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cooperate (page history and authors); cooperate (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooperate (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooperate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cooperate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cooperate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cooperate (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooperate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooperate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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