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cooperation - 20 thesaurus results
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
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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
cooperating; in cooperation, in league (party) [more]; coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; synergetic, synergistic., favorable [more] to; unopposed [more].
-adverbs
as one (unanimously) [more]; shoulder to shoulder.
-phrases
due teste valgono piu che una sola.
Antonyms: opposition
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: 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: 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
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
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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