Other forms: cooperations
Cooperation is the working together of people towards one end. Close cooperation, seek cooperation, cooperation between agencies.
Game theory has spent seventy years on the question of why it happens at all when defecting pays better in a single round, and the answer is that most encounters are repeated. It is often spelt with a hyphen or a diaeresis. The Latin means working with.
1nouncooperationThe working together of people towards one end.
“Thanks to the cooperation of local people, the police found the missing boy quickly.”
cooperation is a working together.
Latin cooperatio comes from cooperari, to work with — co- plus operari, to work.
Latin
cooperātiō
French
cooperation
English, today
cooperation
r. French cooperation, from Latin cooperātiō. by surface analysis, co- + operation or cooperate + ion.
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