CO-OPERATE


Meaning of CO-OPERATE in English

also cooperate

( co-operates, co-operating, co-operated)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate .

The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees...

The couple spoke about how they would co-operate in the raising of their child...

V-RECIP : V with n , pl-n V

• co-operation

A deal with Japan could indeed open the door to economic co-operation with East Asia.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you co-operate , you do what someone has asked or told you to do.

He agreed to co-operate with the police investigation...

The plan failed because the soldiers refused to co-operate.

VERB : V with n , V

• co-operation

The police underlined the importance of the public’s co-operation in the hunt for the bombers.

= assistance

N-UNCOUNT

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