collaborate

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to help someone
helpCan I help you get that?
aidThe project is designed to aid poorer countries.
assistThe army arrived to assist in the search.
collaborateWe collaborated on the project.
cooperateSeveral countries are cooperating in the relief effort.
benefitThe children have benefited greatly from the new facilities.
Governments must cooperate if they are to combat international terrorism.
Their refusal to cooperate is perfectly understandable, considering the circumstances.
Local residents refused to cooperate with the police.
If you all cooperate, we can have this place tidy in no time.
Jill refused to cooperate with the enquiry.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Helping and co-operating
abet
accommodative
any port in a stormidiom
assist
assist with something
attend
bridge
carry
errand of mercyidiom
facilitate
facilitation
financial assistance
give someone a leg upidiom
leg
recourse
relief
run errandsidiom
share a platformidiom
sponsor
start (something) off

cooperate | American Dictionary

cooperate
verb[ I ]
us/koʊˈɑp·əˌreɪt/
to act or work together for a shared purpose, or to help willingly when asked:
The company promised to cooperate fully with the law-enforcement authorities.
He refused to cooperate.

cooperation

noun[ U ]us/koʊˌɑp·əˈreɪ·ʃən/
Without the cooperation of local residents, this movie could not have been made.

cooperate | Business English

cooperate
verb[ I ]
(UK alsoco-operate)uk /kəʊˈɒpəreɪt/us
to agree to work with another company, organization, or country in order to achieve something:
Large corporations have a duty to cooperate in order to protect the environment.
cooperate (with sb) on/in sthWe are cooperating with another company on this joint venture.
cooperate in doing sth/ to do sthThey have agreed to cooperate in distributing products and providing support services.
to be helpful by doing what someone asks you to do:
cooperate with sbA spokesman said the company would cooperate fully with the regulatory authorities.

Examples of cooperate

cooperate
The process converges to a unique absorbing state in which all players cooperate.
Most disturbing is the finding that once players learn that their opponent has either cooperated or defected, almost all defect.
This illustrates the ability of regression trees to separate, or group together, cooperating factors under given circumstances.
By means of cooperating with the virtual robot, predictive display control method can eliminate the affection of time-delay and improve the maneuverability and the safety.
In other words, this subpopulation will cooperate with the others that are having difficulties to match their outputs.
That's where the ethers and the fluids and the essences cooperate.
Certainly economists should contribute something to understanding how human society developed, and here, economists have to cooperate with anthropologists and others.
In another case in the sewing sector, ten small entrepreneurs who are located in the same vicinity cooperate.
Therefore, the second intention is to demonstrate the difficulties in the interpretation of age-intensity profiles which derive from cooperating processes.
Nevertheless, differences in guild policies were considerable, and hence also the ways husbands and wives cooperated in the urban market trades.
He observed that the prosperity of a settlement is proportional to the population it contains insofar as they cooperate for the common good.
It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate.
Despite risks of a deadlock, it generally provides an incentive for the states to cooperate with each other.
Questions and concerns about how conventional and organic producers can cooperate and coexist under marketing order programs need to be addressed.
The range of possible control options is very large, though the modules definitely have to cooperate in any centrally-imposed control strategy.
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