| Main Entry: | collaboration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cooperation |
Synonyms: |
alliance, association, collusion, combination, concert, fraternization, joint effort, participation, partnership, teamwork, working together |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
Antonyms: |
noncooperation |
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
Synonyms: |
accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union |
Antonyms: |
antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war |
| Main Entry: | assist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
Synonyms: |
abetment, aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support |
Antonyms: |
hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | assistance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
Synonyms: |
abetment, aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance |
Antonyms: |
hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | coincidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement; coexistence |
Synonyms: |
accompaniment, accord, accordance, collaboration, concomitance, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, consonance, correlation, correspondence, parallelism, synchronism, union |
Antonyms: |
clash, deviation, difference, disagreement, divergence, mismatch |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
Synonyms: |
abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal |
| Main Entry: | concert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, harmony |
Synonyms: |
accord, chorus, collaboration, concord, concordance, consonance, joint, league, togetherness, tune, unanimity, union, unison |
| Notes: | a recital is a musical performance by a soloist or two performers; a concert is a performance by a group |
Antonyms: |
disagreement, disharmony, disunity |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
Synonyms: |
aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots, coaction, coadjuvancy, coalition, collaboration, combination, combined effort, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confunction, conspiracy, doing business with, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, logrolling, participation, partisanship, partnership, playing ball, reciprocity, responsiveness, service, society, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, teaming, teamwork, unanimity, union, unity |
Antonyms: |
blockage, delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | give-and-take |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual concession |
Synonyms: |
adaptability, banter, collaboration, compromise, concession, cooperation, deal-making, exchange, offset, reciprocity, settlement, swap, trade, trade-off, wheeling and dealing |
| Main Entry: | coaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cooperation |
Synonyms: |
collaboration, cooperating, joint action, joint effort, synergy, teamwork |