collaboration

Main Entry:
collaboration [kuh-lab-uh-rey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cooperation
Synonyms: alliance, association, collusion, combination, concert, fraternization, joint effort, participation, partnership, teamwork, working together
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: noncooperation
Main Entry: assist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help
Synonyms: abetment, aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support
Antonyms: hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting
Main Entry: assistance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help
Synonyms: abetment, aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance
Antonyms: hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage
Main Entry: coincidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement; coexistence
Synonyms: accompaniment, accord, accordance, collaboration, concomitance, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, consonance, correlation, correspondence, parallelism, synchronism, union
Antonyms: clash, deviation, difference, disagreement, divergence, mismatch
Main Entry: complicity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: conspiracy
Synonyms: abetment, agreement, collaboration, collusion, complot, concurrence, confederacy, connivance, engineering, guilt, guiltiness, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership
Antonyms: ignorance, innocence, noninvolvement, refusal
Main Entry: concert
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, harmony
Synonyms: accord, chorus, collaboration, concord, concordance, consonance, joint, league, togetherness, tune, unanimity, union, unison
Notes: a recital is a musical performance by a soloist or two performers; a concert is a performance by a group
Antonyms: disagreement, disharmony, disunity
Main Entry: cooperation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mutual effort
Synonyms: aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots, coaction, coadjuvancy, coalition, collaboration, combination, combined effort, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confunction, conspiracy, doing business with, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, logrolling, participation, partisanship, partnership, playing ball, reciprocity, responsiveness, service, society, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, teaming, teamwork, unanimity, union, unity
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: blockage, delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage
Main Entry: give-and-take
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mutual concession
Synonyms: adaptability, banter, collaboration, compromise, concession, cooperation, deal-making, exchange, offset, reciprocity, settlement, swap, trade, trade-off, wheeling and dealing
Main Entry: coaction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cooperation
Synonyms: collaboration, cooperating, joint action, joint effort, synergy, teamwork
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