I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a collaborative/cooperative effort formal (= with different people or groups working together )
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This was a collaborative effort involving the three largest energy companies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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For the present, what is needed most is more cooperative work, and less competitive philosophising.
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In announcing the victims fund, the banks expressed the hope that it would promote a more cooperative spirit in the negotiations.
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Most horses will stand better for the farrier, and be more cooperative , if they are reassured and rewarded.
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Employee Involvement is regarded as a long-term attempt to create a more cooperative relationship with employees.
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The so-called Mond-Turner talks, leading to little in themselves, but symbolizing a more cooperative approach, became possible.
very
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The body is very cooperative in becoming more supple quite quickly if we practise stretching postures regularly.
■ NOUN
effort
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It was a cooperative effort between the two.
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He did not need to say that he envisioned this as a cooperative effort .
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We shall only succeed in dealing with the problems through a vast international cooperative effort .
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Yet work organizations depend on shared power in win-win cooperative effort .
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For this reason, trade unions might be active in cooperative efforts with management to achieve growth through greater efficiency.
movement
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Activities of the local cooperative movement were facilitated by a strong trading position.
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Cooperation enters politics By the end of the nineteenth century an important cooperative movement was established in West Ham.
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Friendly societies and the cooperative movement testified to the accommodation.
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Founded in 1883, its relationship to the cooperative movement was from the start problematic.
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However committed the cooperative movement was to political involvement, there remained a powerful independence, and this proved decisive.
relationship
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Cramlington is an example of an almost entirely cooperative relationship .
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Only a handful seemed to appreciate the advantages in actively building trust, credibility, and cooperative relationships with peers.
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One way concerns cooperative relationships between genes within species.
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They would exacerbate the problems of unbalanced power that threaten any cooperative relationship .
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Employee Involvement is regarded as a long-term attempt to create a more cooperative relationship with employees.
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Fig trees and fig wasps share an intimate cooperative relationship .
venture
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Marriage teeters on the line between a cooperative venture and a form of mutual exploitation-ask any divorce lawyer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A cooperative waiter helped us to order from the huge menu.
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Car companies have started several cooperative ventures.
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Some of the students are highly cooperative and attentive, but unfortunately, most aren't.
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The suspect has been cooperative with investigators, but he shows little remorse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Braitman and Ehrenzweig like having it where they live, and feel its cooperative , relaxed ambience is very San Francisco.
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Directors also strive to foster a cooperative spirit and friendly attitude among employees and a compassionate demeanor toward the families.
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Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions, but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges.
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Many heritage establishments will be cooperative provided the matter is discussed in advance.
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Needless to say, the band was run on cooperative lines with no one in particular leading.
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The Board had considered McFarlane to be a cooperative and credible witness.
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The nature of the task requires cooperative activity of a high order at various levels and between a wide range of people.
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The Queretaro cooperative project, I believe, was no exception.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a potato farm cooperative in Pennsylvania
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pilot cooperative is working on fulfilling the preconditions for certification, such as the development of a management plan.
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As a cooperative we were very poor.
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But it reopened after a state judge ruled this month that the cooperative could do business under the tenets of Proposition 215.
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His buying cooperative dropped Shaw after the company announced it would get into the retail market.
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I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
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The agro-industry maquila cooperative project was one attempt to provide rural industrial work for women.