cooperation

See also: coopération, coöperation, coöpération, and co-operation

English

Alternative forms

• co-operation
• coöperation

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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.

Antonyms

• competition

Derived terms

• cooperationism
• coopetition
• noncooperation
• protocooperation
• uncooperation

 

Related terms

• cooperative

Translations

act of cooperating or being cooperative

• Afrikaans: samewerking
• Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعَاوُن m (taʕāwun)
• Armenian: համագործակցություն (hy) (hamagorcakcʻutʻyun), կոոպերացիա (hy) (kooperacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: əməkdaşlıq (az), kooperasiya
• Basque: elkarlan (eu)
• Belarusian: супрацо́ўніцтва n (supracóŭnictva), каапера́цыя f (kaapjerácyja)
• Bhojpuri: सहयोग (sahᵊyōg)
• Breton: kenlabour m
• Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (bg) n (sǎtrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (bg) f (kooperácija)
• Catalan: cooperació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 合作 (hap⁶ zok³)

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 / 协作 (zh) (xiézuò), 配合 (zh) (pèihé)

• Czech: spolupráce (cs) f
• Danish: samarbejde (da) n
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f
• Esperanto: kooperado
• Estonian: koostöö
• Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), yhteistoiminta (fi)
• French: coopération (fr) f
• Georgian: თანამშრომლობა (tanamšromloba), კოოპერაცია (ḳooṗeracia)
• German: Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kooperation (de) f, Mitarbeit (de) f
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía)

  Ancient: συνεργία f (sunergía)

• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá), שִׁתּוּף m (shitúf)
• Hindi: सहयोग (hi) m (sahyog), सहकार (hi) m (sahkār)
• Hungarian: együttműködés (hu), kooperáció (hu)
• Icelandic: samvinna f, samstarf n
• Indonesian: kerja sama (id)
• Italian: cooperazione (it) f
• Japanese: 協力 (ja) (きょうりょく, kyōryoku), 協調 (ja) (きょうちょう, kyōchō), 合作 (ja) (がっさく, gassaku)
• Kazakh: ынтымақтастық (yntymaqtastyq), кооперация (kooperasiä)
• Khmer: សហប្រតិបត្តិ (saʼhaʼprɑtebat)
• Korean: 협력(協力) (ko) (hyeomnyeok), 협조(協助) (ko) (hyeopjo), 합작(合作) (hapjak)
• Kyrgyz: кызматташтык (kızmattaştık), кооперация (kooperatsiya)
• Lao: ຄວາມຮ່ວມມື (khuām hūam mư̄), ສະຫະກອນ (lo) (sa ha kǭn), ສະຫະໂຍກ (sa ha nyōk)
• Latvian: sadarbība f, kooperācija f
• Lithuanian: kooperacija f
• Macedonian: соработка f (sorabotka), кооперација f (kooperacija)
• Malay: kerjasama
• Malayalam: സഹകരണം (ml) (sahakaraṇaṁ)
• Norman: co-opéthâtion f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samarbeid (no) n, samhandling m or f

  Nynorsk: samarbeid n

• Occitan: cooperacion (oc) f
• Old English: efnwyrċing f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: هَمْکاری (hamkâri), تَعاوُن (ta'âvon)

• Polish: współpraca (pl) f, kooperacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: cooperação (pt) f
• Romanian: cooperare (ro) f, conlucrare (ro), cooperație (ro) f
• Russian: сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (ru) f (kooperácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сара̀дња f, сура̀дња f, коопера́ција f

  Roman: saràdnja (sh) f, suràdnja (sh) f, kooperácija (sh) f

• Slovak: spolupráca f
• Slovene: sodelovanje n
• Spanish: cooperación (es)
• Swedish: samarbete (sv) n, samverkan (sv) c, kooperation (sv) c
• Tagalog: pakikitulong
• Tajik: ҳамкорӣ (hamkori), кооператсия (kooperatsiya), таовун (taovun)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: хезмәттәшлек (tt) (xezmättäşlek)
• Telugu: సహకారం (te) (sahakāraṁ)
• Thai: ความร่วมมือ (th) (kwaam-rûuam-mʉʉ)
• Turkish: ortak çalışma, işbirliği (tr), emektaşlık (tr)
• Turkmen: hyzmatdaşlyk
• Ukrainian: співробі́тництво (uk) n (spivrobítnyctvo), співпра́ця (uk) f (spivprácja), коопера́ція (uk) f (kooperácija)
• Urdu: تَعاوُن m (ta'āvun)
• Uyghur: ھەمكارلىشىش (hemkarlishish), كوپىراتسىيە (kopiratsiye)
• Uzbek: hamkorlik (uz), kooperatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự hợp tác (vi), hợp tác (vi) (合作)
• Yoruba: ìfọwọ́sowọ́pọ̀

active help from a person, organization, et cetera

• Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (bg) n (sǎtrúdničestvo)
• Dutch: coöperatie (nl) f
• Finnish: apu (fi), tuki (fi)
• Hungarian: segítség (hu), segítségnyújtás (hu), segítőkészség (hu)
• Polish: kooperacja (pl) f

association for mutual benefit

• Afrikaans: koöperasie
• Bulgarian: коопера́ция (bg) f (kooperácija)
• Danish: kooperation c
• Dutch: samenwerkingsverband (nl) n, coöperatie (nl) f
• Finnish: osuustoiminta (fi)
• French: coopérative (fr) f
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shitúf p'ulá)
• Indonesian: koperasi (id)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cooperație (ro) f, cooperativă (ro) f
• Tagalog: tulungan, pakikitulong
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

References

• 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.

French

Noun

cooperation f (plural cooperations)

1. Obsolete form of coopération.

Middle French

Noun

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

References

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