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| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots*, coalition, collaboration, combination, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, conspiracy, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, participation, partnership, reciprocity, service, society, synergy, teamwork, union, unity, coaction, coadjuvancy, combined effort, confederation, confunction, doing business with, logrolling, partisanship, playing ball, responsiveness, symbiosis, synergism, teaming, unanimity |
| 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: | delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage, blockage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at one with, banded together, coadjutant, coadjuvant, concurrent, concurring, cooperating, favorable to, in alliance with, in cooperation, in league, of one mind, propitious, unopposed
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-nouns
cooperation; coadjuvancy, coadjutancy; coagency, coefficiency; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation; union [more]; combination [more]; collusion., association, alliance, colleagueship,, joint stock, copartnership; cartel; confederation (party) [more]; coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; logrolling, freemasonry., unanimity (assent) [more]; esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship, partisanship; concord [more]; synergy.
-verbs
cooperate, concur; conduce [more]; combine, unite one's efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one's heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples., side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with, mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of; come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack., be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second (aid) [more]; take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.
-adjectives
-adverbs
as one (unanimously) [more]; shoulder to shoulder.
-phrases
due teste valgono piu che una sola.
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| Antonyms: | opposition |
| 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, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, friendship, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union, confederation, fraternization, interrelation, mutuality |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war, disunion |
| Main Entry: | assist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | assistance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | esprit de corps |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group spirit |
| Synonyms: | camaraderie, communion, community, cooperation, esprit, fellowship, morale, solidarity, common bond, community of interests, group loyalty, group spirit, team morale, team spirit |
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good will*, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token, benignity, good turn, obligement |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | give-and-take |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual concession |
| Synonyms: | adaptability, banter, collaboration, compromise, concession, cooperation, exchange, offset, reciprocity, settlement, swap, trade, deal-making, trade-off, wheeling and dealing |
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots*, cartel, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, house, interest, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, togetherness, union, chumminess, consociation, hookup, joining, tie-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony |
| Synonyms: | accord, agreement, alliance, community, concert, concord, conjunction, consent, consonance, cooperation, federation, league, reciprocity, sympathy, union, unity, accordance, concordance, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | discord, disharmony |
| Main Entry: | interaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interplay |
| Synonyms: | communication, cooperation, synergy, intercommunication, reciprocal action |
| Main Entry: | participation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | partnership |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, attendance, concurrence, cooperation, encouragement, help, presence, sharing, support, joining in, taking part |
| Main Entry: | reciprocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interchange |
| Synonyms: | cooperation, exchange, mutuality, reciprocality, reciprocation |
| Main Entry: | acceptance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, taking |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, approval, assent, compliance, consent, cooperation, getting, go-ahead*, green light*, nod*, okay, permission, receipt, receiving, reception, recognition, securing, undertaking, yes, accepting, acquiring, gaining, obtaining, taking on |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, refusal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
| Synonyms: | accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | harmony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, amity, compatibility, concord, conformity, consensus, consistency, cooperation, correspondence, empathy, friendship, good will, kinship, peace, rapport, sympathy, tranquility, understanding, unity, amicability, like-mindedness, meeting of minds, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | clash, disagreement, discord, fighting |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance, relief |
| Synonyms: | advice, aid, assist, avail, balm*, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility |
| Antonyms: | check, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop, blockage, counteraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, friendliness, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship, acquaintanceship, comradeship, fraternization, frequenting, hookup |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude, aloneness, disunion |
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