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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cooperation \Co*["o]p'er*a"tion\, noun [L. co["o]peratio: cf. F. coop['e]ration.]
1. The act of co["o]perating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
Not holpen by the co["o]peration of angels. --Bacon.
2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cooperation
noun
1: joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission" [ant: {competition}]
2: the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "cooperation": accompaniment, accord, accordance, advocacy, affiliation, affinity, agreement, aid, alliance, alternation, assent, assistance, association, auspices, backing, backup, battledore and shuttlecock, blessing, cahoots, chorus, co-working, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, commutation, companionship, company, compatibility, complementary distribution, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consociation, consonance, consort, conspiracy, cooperative society, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, democracy, engagement, equivalence, exchange, favor, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, friendship, give-and-take, harmony, help, helping hand, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intersection, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, junction, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lex talionis, measure for measure, membership, mesh, meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partaking, participation, patronage, peace, permutation, profit sharing, public ownership, quid pro quo, rapport, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, saprophytism, seesaw, self-consistency, sharecropping, sharing, simultaneity, socialism, society, something for something, sponsorship, state ownership, support, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synergism, synergy, tally, teamwork, timing, tit for tat, town meeting, transposal, transposition, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action
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