cooperative
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- adjective
- /koʊˈɒpərətɪv/
:
cooperativo
- He was very cooperative during the group discussion, allowing everyone to share their ideas.
- cooperative learning
- a cooperative effort
- cooperative groups
So some people were very cooperative, some people crazy.
- So some people were very cooperative, some people crazy.
- How is it that people come to behave in cooperative ways?
- And we know that we humans are cooperative breeders.
- We're supposed to be more cooperative than that.
- But the thing about humans is that we have lived in richer cooperative groups than other animals.
- Agreeable people are cooperative, empathic, humble, and helpful.
- So there's a sense that develops that the world is not a safe and cooperative place.
- And that'll kind of inform you as to, you know, how cooperative they'll be.
- Europe has done and still does some cool stuff, but human learning has been much more cooperative than that.
- But I would ask everybody to be cooperative and calm because the police do have powers.
- Drilling is a cooperative venture where you work as dance partners, complementing each other's movement.
Examples
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I want to thank you, Mrs. Ravine, for being so cooperative with these gentlemen.
Fiction book (1993) -
Look, I have been nothing but cooperative.
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Most people are cooperative and kind most of the time.
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We're supposed to be more cooperative than that.
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I think trying to be a little bit more, how should I say cooperative might go a long way.
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And they are much more cooperative.
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Students frequently worked in cooperative groups to discuss and solve the problems.
Academic text (2011) -
We sought to focus on the positive, cooperative, and warm nature of student-student interactions only.
Academic text (2011) -
For social studies teachers and their culturally diverse students, cooperative learning approaches are especially valuable.
Academic text (1990) -
Your last four years, you have been a cooperative and upstanding inmate.
Synonyms
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Joined as one group and working toward the same goal
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People or groups work together in a planned, coordinated way
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Being in a group like a team where people share power and responsibility
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Ready to change or compromise to help others and keep peace
Groups that work together to produce a better result than alone
Antonyms
How Cooperative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cooperative comes from the parts co- meaning 'together' and operate meaning 'to work', so a cooperative person is someone ready to 'work together' with others.