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involving doing something together or working together with others towards a shared aim 合作的;協作的;同心協力的 Cooperative activity is essential to effective community work. 要把社區工作做好,協作活動是必不可少的。 The documentary was a cooperative effort by film-makers from five countries. 這部紀錄片是由五個國家的電影制作人合作制作的。 This is a cooperative venture with the University of Copenhagen. 這是與哥本哈根大學的一個合作項目。
helpful by doing what you are asked to do 協助的;配合的 Employees will generally be more cooperative if their views are taken seriously. 如果僱員的意見得到認真對待,他們一般都會更加配合。
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business )商業 owned and run by the people involved, with the profits shared by them 共同擁有共同經營利益共享的;合作的 a cooperative farm 合作農場 The cooperative movement started in Britain in the nineteenth century. 合作社運動始於十九世紀的英國。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin cooperativus, from Latin cooperat- ‘worked together’, from the verb cooperari, from co- ‘together’ + operari ‘to work’.