cooperation

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /kəˌwɔpəˈɹɛjʃ(ə)n/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /koʊˌɑ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
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• Canada, dialectal: /koʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ of the US
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• Australian: /kəʉˌɔp.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /kɐʉˌɒp.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/
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• New-Zealand: [kɐʉˌɔ̟p.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən]
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: K OW0 AA2 P ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: K W AA2 P ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 3: K W AO2 P ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1620–1630. Borrowed from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō. By surface analysis, co- + operation or cooperate + -ion.

147 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: samewerking — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Albanian: bashkëpunim — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Arabic: تَعَاوُن (taʕāwun) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Armenian: համագործակցություն (hamagorcakcʻutʻyun) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Armenian: կոոպերացիա (kooperacʻia) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Azerbaijani: əməkdaşlıq — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Azerbaijani: kooperasiya — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Basque: elkarlan — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Belarusian: супрацо́ўніцтва (supracównictva) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Belarusian: каапера́цыя (kaapjerácyja) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Bengali: সহযোগিতা (śohjōgita) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Bhojpuri: सहयोग (sahəyōg) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Breton: kenlabour — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (sǎtrúdničestvo) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Bulgarian: коопера́ция (kooperácija) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Catalan: cooperació — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Chinese Cantonese: 合作 (hap6 zok3) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Chinese Mandarin: 合作 (hézuò) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Chinese Mandarin: 協作 /协作 (xiézuò) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Chinese Mandarin: 配合 (pèihé) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Czech: spolupráce — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Danish: samarbejde — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Dutch: samenwerking — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Esperanto: kooperado — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Estonian: koostöö — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Finnish: yhteistyö — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Finnish: yhteistoiminta — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• French: coopération — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Georgian: თანამშრომლობა (tanamšromloba) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Georgian: კოოპერაცია (ḳooṗeracia) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• German: Zusammenarbeit — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• German: Kooperation — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• German: Mitarbeit — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Greek: συνεργασία (synergasía) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Greek: συνεταιρισμός (synetairismós) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Ancient Greek: συνεργία (sunergía) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shitúf p'ulá) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hebrew: שִׁתּוּף (shitúf) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hindi: सहयोग (sahyog) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hindi: सहकार (sahkār) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hungarian: együttműködés — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Hungarian: kooperáció — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Icelandic: samvinna — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Icelandic: samstarf — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Indonesian: kerja sama — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Italian: cooperazione — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Japanese: 協力 (kyōryoku) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Japanese: 協調 (kyōchō) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Japanese: 合作 (gassaku) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Kazakh: ынтымақтастық (yntymaqtastyq) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Kazakh: кооперация (kooperasiä) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Khmer: សហប្រតិបត្តិ (saʼhaʼprɑtebat) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Korean: 협력 (hyeomnyeok) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Korean: 협조 (hyeopjo) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Korean: 합작 (hapjak) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Northern Kurdish: hevkarî — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Kyrgyz: кызматташтык (kızmattaştık) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Kyrgyz: кооперация (kooperatsiya) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Lao: ຄວາມຮ່ວມມື (khuām hūam mư̄) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Lao: ສະຫະກອນ (sa ha kǭn) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Lao: ສະຫະໂຍກ (sa ha nyōk) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Latvian: sadarbība — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Latvian: kooperācija — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Lithuanian: kooperacija — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Macedonian: соработка (sorabotka) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Macedonian: кооперација (kooperacija) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Malay: kerjasama — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Malayalam: സഹകരണം (sahakaraṇaṁ) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Norman: co-opéthâtion — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Norwegian Bokmål: samarbeid — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Norwegian Bokmål: samhandling — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Norwegian Nynorsk: samarbeid — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Occitan: cooperacion — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Old English: efnwyrċing — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Pashto: همکاري (hamkārí) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Pashto: تعاون (ta'āwón) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Iranian Persian: هَمْکاری (hamkâri) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Iranian Persian: تَعاوُن (ta'âvon) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Polish: współpraca — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Polish: kooperacja — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Portuguese: cooperação — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Romanian: cooperare — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Romanian: conlucrare — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Romanian: cooperație — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Russian: сотру́дничество (sotrúdničestvo) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Russian: коопера́ция (kooperácija) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: сара̀дња — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: сура̀дња — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: коопера́ција — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: saràdnja — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: suràdnja — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Serbo-Croatian: kooperácija — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Slovak: spolupráca — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Slovene: sodelovanje — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Spanish: cooperación — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Swedish: samarbete — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Swedish: samverkan — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Swedish: kooperation — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tagalog: pakikitulong — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tajik: ҳамкорӣ (hamkori) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tajik: кооператсия (kooperatsiya) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tajik: таовун (taovun) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tamil: ஒத்துழைப்பு (ottuḻaippu) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tamil: ஒத்துழைக்கை (ottuḻaikkai) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Tatar: хезмәттәшлек (xezmättäşlek) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Telugu: సహకారం (sahakāraṁ) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Thai: ความร่วมมือ (kwaam-rûuam-mʉʉ) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Turkish: ortak çalışma — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Turkish: işbirliği — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Turkish: emektaşlık — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Turkmen: hyzmatdaşlyk — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Ukrainian: співробі́тництво (spivrobítnyctvo) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Ukrainian: співпра́ця (spivprácja) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Ukrainian: коопера́ція (kooperácija) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Urdu: تَعاوُن (ta'āvun) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Urdu: ہَم کاری (ham kārī) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Uyghur: ھەمكارلىشىش (hemkarlishish) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Uyghur: كوپىراتسىيە (kopiratsiye) — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Uzbek: hamkorlik — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Uzbek: kooperatsiya — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Vietnamese: sự hợp tác — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Vietnamese: hợp tác — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Yoruba: ìfọwọ́sowọ́pọ̀ — act of cooperating or being cooperative
• Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (sǎtrúdničestvo) — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Dutch: coöperatie — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Finnish: apu — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Finnish: tuki — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Hungarian: segítség — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Hungarian: segítségnyújtás — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Hungarian: segítőkészség — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Polish: kooperacja — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Tamil: ஒத்துழைப்பு (ottuḻaippu) — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Tamil: ஒத்துழைக்கை (ottuḻaikkai) — active help from a person, organization, et cetera
• Afrikaans: koöperasie — association for mutual benefit
• Bulgarian: коопера́ция (kooperácija) — association for mutual benefit
• Danish: kooperation — association for mutual benefit
• Dutch: samenwerkingsverband — association for mutual benefit
• Dutch: coöperatie — association for mutual benefit
• Finnish: osuustoiminta — association for mutual benefit
• French: coopérative — association for mutual benefit
• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shitúf p'ulá) — association for mutual benefit
• Indonesian: koperasi — association for mutual benefit
• Romanian: cooperație — association for mutual benefit
• Romanian: cooperativă — association for mutual benefit
• Tagalog: tulungan — association for mutual benefit
• Tagalog: pakikitulong — association for mutual benefit
• Tamil: கூட்டுறவு (kūṭṭuṟavu) — association for mutual benefit