cooperation

Main Entry:
cooperation [koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn]
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
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Cooperation.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms:
-nouns
cooperation; coadjuvancy, coadjutancy; coagency, coefficiency; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation; union; combination; collusion., association, alliance, colleagueship,, joint stock, copartnership; cartel; confederation (party); coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; logrolling, freemasonry., unanimity (assent); esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship, partisanship; concord; synergy.
-verbs
cooperate, concur; conduce; combine, unite one's efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one's heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples., side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with, mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of; come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack., be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second (aid); take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.
-adjectives
cooperating; in cooperation, in league (party) [more]; coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; synergetic, synergistic., favorable to; unopposed.
-adverbs
as one (unanimously); shoulder to shoulder.
-phrases
due teste valgono piu che una sola.
Antonyms: opposition
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Main Entry: acceptance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, taking
Synonyms: accepting, acknowledgment, acquiring, admission, approval, assent, compliance, consent, cooperation, gaining, getting, go-ahead, green light, nod, obtaining, okay, permission, receipt, receiving, reception, recognition, securing, taking on, undertaking, yes
Antonyms: disagreement, dissent, refusal
Main Entry: aid
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help, support
Synonyms: advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment
Notes: aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant
Antonyms: blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction
Main Entry: alliance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendly association, agreement
Synonyms: accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union
Antonyms: antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war
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: association
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendship
Synonyms: acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship
Antonyms: aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude
Main Entry: convenience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: availability, usefulness; useful thing
Synonyms: accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, agreeableness, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, comforts, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, handiness, help, life, luxury, means, ministration, ministry, openness, opportuneness, promotion, receptiveness, relief, satisfaction, service, serviceability, succor, suitability, suitableness, support, time saver, use, utility
Antonyms: inconvenience, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness, waste
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