cooperateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperatus (“work with”). See co- + operate. Displaced native 古期英語 efnwyrċan.

発音

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈɒpəɹeɪt/, /kuˈɒpəɹeɪt/

動詞

cooperate (三人称単数 現在形 cooperates, 現在分詞 cooperating, 過去形および過去分詞形 cooperated)

1. (intransitive) To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.

2. (intransitive) To allow for mutual unobstructed action
3. (intransitive) To function in harmony, side by side
4. (intransitive) To engage in economic cooperation.

使用する際の注意点

• The usual pronunciation of 'oo' is /uː/ or /ʊ/. The dieresis in the spelling coöperate – now obsolete outside the pages of The New Yorker – was intended to emphasize that the second o begins a separate syllable.
• The solid form is much more common than the hyphenated form in both British and American corpora. The hyphenated form used to be more common in British usage, but is no more.^[1]

同意語

関連する語

• cooperation (noun)
• cooperative (adjective; noun)
• cooperator (agent noun)

参照

参照

• “co-operate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.