COOPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooperation mean? 

• COOPERATION (noun)
  The noun COOPERATION has 2 senses:

1. joint operation or action

2. the practice of cooperating

  Familiarity information: COOPERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joint operation or action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission

Hypernyms ("cooperation" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooperation"):

teamwork (cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective))

abidance; compliance; conformation; conformity (acting according to certain accepted standards)

coaction; collaboration (act of working jointly)

collaboration; collaborationism; quislingism (act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country)

compromise; via media (a middle way between two extremes)

concurrence; concurrency (acting together, as agents or circumstances or events)

rapprochement; reconciliation (the reestablishing of cordial relations)

self-sacrifice; selflessness (acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity)

allegiance; commitment; dedication; loyalty (the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action)

representation (the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf)

Antonym:

competition (the act of competing as for profit or a prize)

Derivation:

cooperate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The practice of cooperating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

they agreed on a policy of cooperation

Hypernyms ("cooperation" is a kind of...):

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

Derivation:

cooperate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

 Context examples 

One of the benefits of the cooperation for Brazil is that it allows the country better preparation for satellite launches by providing more detailed data on the space trash routes.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Now, my dear fellow, in the matter of these explanations, we have, if I may ask for your cooperation, a hard and dangerous night’s work in front of us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

ROS generation in mitochondria activates caspase-3 via cooperation of cytochrome c, Aif and caspase-9 and stimulates or increases ceramide generation through A-SMase in a proapoptotic activation cycle.

(Ceramide Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Voluntary cooperation of the patient in following a prescribed regimen.

(Compliance, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

At the DNA replication fork, a DNA helicase (DnaB or MCM complex) precedes the DNA synthetic machinery and unwinds the duplex parental DNA in cooperation with the SSB or RPA.

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Human cooperation is crucial to honeyguides because bees’ nests are often hidden in inaccessible crevices high up in trees – and honeybees sting ferociously.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Studies such as this highlight the need for long-term and multidisciplinary research, as well as international cooperation in the development of scientific, management, and conservation plans for the polar regions.

(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)

In spite of their cunning philosophy and of their antlike proclivities for cooperation, Nature rejected them for the exceptional man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Cell migration might result from cooperation between ERK/MAPKs and Rho proteins, FAK activation, beta-integrin clustering and beta-catenin activation.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This research probes how elements of reproductive conflict can evolve into permanent reproductive cooperation in spite of their costs, said George Gilchrist, acting deputy director of the NSF Division of Environmental Biology.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)