co-operateadj.
Caused to co-operate; brought into co-operation.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [adjective] > brought into co-operation
co-operate1868
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) xiii. 175 The system of co-operation or co-operate industry.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Oct. 12/2 You want the co-operate knowledge of political economy and sound critical ability of Mr. A.
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co-operatev.
/kəʊˈɒpəreɪt/, U.S. /koʊˈɑpəˌreɪt/ 1. intransitive. To work together, act in conjunction (with another person or thing, to an end or purpose, or in a work):
a. of persons.
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1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cooperate, to worke together, to helpe.
1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 128 Man..cooperateth with man unto repentance.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. iv. 136 Though he doe not cooperate to his owne destruction.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 228 It is..difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.
1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 402 That the British army should cross the Tagus..and co-operate..in an attack upon Victor.
1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 54 The Turk began his career in Christian history by coöperating with a Christian Emperor.
1879 Spectator 7 June 719 Living in communities and co-operating in labour.
b. Of things: To concur in producing an effect.
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the world > action or operation > operate [verb (intransitive)] > together
conspirea1538
concur1559
co-operate1604
co-work1613
co-ordinate1863
synergize1863
coacta1877
society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)]
conjoin1532
conspirea1538
concurc1550
co-operate1604
coadjute1612
coacta1616
to jump in quilla1616
co-operate1616
co-opere1663
to pull together1772
rally1792
to row in1861
collaborate1871
to play ball (with)1903
to play along1929
play1937
1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. iii. 121 Free will..can cooperatt nothing at all.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. xv. 303 All things co-operate for the best.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. ii. vi. 98 Here a double Force is made co-operate to one End.
1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 9 Vanity cooperated with taste.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 707 If sunlight and chlorophyll do not cooperate to produce new formative material by assimilation.
2. intransitive. To practise economic co-operation.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [verb (intransitive)] > practise or advocate specific policies
co-operate1830
tariff1909
deflate1919
revalue1925
inflate1940
jawbone1966
reflate1971
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 165 If the rats were to be advised to economize or to ‘co-operate’.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. 175 Why should they not also co-operate for the purpose of supplying each other with good and cheap food and clothing?
Derivatives
co-ˈoperating n. and adj.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica Pref. Some cooperating advancers. View more context for this quotation
1680 ‘Philalethes’ tr. G. Buchanan De Jure Regni apud Scotos 14 There may be a mutual cooperating for the good of the Whole.
1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 26 Aug. (1964) II. 344 Various yet co-operating reasons.
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adj.1868
v.1604- free-for-all
- free-form
- free-franchised
- free-free
- free-garmented
- free-given
- free-going
- free-gracian
- free-growing
- free-grown
- free-hand
- free-handed
- free-handedly
- free-handedness
- free-handler
- free-handling
- free-hanging
- free-hearted
- free-heartedly
- free-heartedness
- free-list
- free-liver
- free-living
- free-loveism
- free-lover