cooperate
verb🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪt/
🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪt/
(British English also co-operate)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cooperate | 🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪt/ 🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪt/ |
| he / she / it cooperates | 🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪts/ 🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪts/ |
| past simple cooperated | 🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪtɪd/ 🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle cooperated | 🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪtɪd/ 🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form cooperating | 🔊/kəʊˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] cooperate (with somebody) (in/on something)
to work together with somebody else in order to achieve something 合作；协作 The two groups agreed to cooperate with each other. 这两个组同意相互协作。 🔊🔊 They had cooperated closely in the planning of the project. 他们曾密切合作，共同规划这一项目。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Discussion and agreementc1The two companies are cooperating in the development of a new engine. 两家公司正在合作开发一种新的发动机。 We are cooperating on a research project. 我们正在合作搞一个科研项目。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fully
- closely
- will
- would
- agree to
- …
- in
- on
- with
- …
- [intransitive] cooperate (with somebody) (in/on something)
to be helpful by doing what somebody asks you to do 协助；配合 Their captors told them they would be killed unless they cooperated. 抓住他们的人说如果他们不配合就杀掉他们。 🔊🔊 The company has agreed to cooperate with the employment survey. 这家公司已同意配合进行就业调查。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fully
- closely
- will
- would
- agree to
- …
- in
- on
- with
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin cooperat- ‘worked together’, from the verb cooperari, from co- ‘together’ + operari ‘to work’.