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Cooperative

adjective

Involving the joint activity of two or more. Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive. "The conjunct influence of fire and strong wind" , "The conjunctive focus of political opposition" , "A cooperative effort" , "A united effort" , "Joint military activities"

Done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit.

Willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement. Synonym: accommodative.

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"Cooperative" Quotes from Famous Books

... day of Sir Humphrey Gilbert had acted as individuals. Soon was to come in the idea of cooperative action—the idea of the joint-stock company, acting under the open permission of the Crown, attended by the interest and favor of numbers of the people, and giving to private initiative and personal ambition, ...

— Pioneers of the Old South - A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Mary Johnston

... facilitated dining for their visitors by offering them countless cups of refreshment that may be drained with a minimum loss of time, almost every insect on wings alights on them sooner or later. In short, they run their business on the principle of a cooperative department store. Immense quantities of the most vigorous, because cross-fertilized, seed being set in every patch, small wonder that our fields are white with daisies - a long and ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... By the cooperative conception of the federal relationship the States and the National Government are regarded as mutually complementary parts of a single governmental mechanism all of whose powers are intended to realize the current purposes of government according to their applicability to the problem in ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... suggestion that the product lent itself nicely to an ice cream topping; by mixing it with honey or with syrup we interested our largest manufacturer of ice cream in this locality and he did a lot of experimental selling. He was very cooperative. He also sold it in his branch stores as milk shakes; everybody liked it. No complaints whatsoever except that the manager said it was too expensive to compete with a chocolate flavor on which he made much more money. ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

Words linked to "Cooperative" : synergetic, commercial enterprise, helpful, joint, collaborative, uncooperative, noncompetitive, association, cooperate, synergistic