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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: joint operation or action; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission" [ant: competition, contention, rivalry]
2: the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the action of cooperating ; common effort 2. association of persons for common benefit • cooperationist noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also co-operation) 1 working together to the same end. 2 Econ. the formation and operation of cooperatives. Etymology: ME f. L cooperatio (as COOPERATE): partly through F coopération

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cooperation Co*["o]p`er*a"tion, n. [L. co["o]peratio: cf. F. coop['e]ration.] 1. The act of co["o]perating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the co["o]peration of angels. --Bacon. 2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.

Moby Thesaurus

accompaniment, accord, accordance, advocacy, affiliation, affinity, agreement, aid, alliance, alternation, assent, assistance, association, auspices, backing, backup, battledore and shuttlecock, blessing, cahoots, chorus, co-working, coaction, coherence, coincidence, collaboration, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, combination, combined effort, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, commutation, companionship, company, compatibility, complementary distribution, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consociation, consonance, consort, conspiracy, cooperative society, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, democracy, engagement, equivalence, exchange, favor, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, friendship, give-and-take, harmony, help, helping hand, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermutation, interplay, intersection, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, junction, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lex talionis, measure for measure, membership, mesh, meshing, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partaking, participation, patronage, peace, permutation, profit sharing, public ownership, quid pro quo, rapport, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation, saprophytism, seesaw, self-consistency, sharecropping, sharing, simultaneity, socialism, society, something for something, sponsorship, state ownership, support, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synergism, synergy, tally, teamwork, timing, tit for tat, town meeting, transposal, transposition, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action