{
    "term": "cooperate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "cooperate",
            "heSheIt": "cooperates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "cooperated",
        "pastParticiple": "cooperated",
        "ingForm": "cooperating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to work together with somebody else in order to achieve something",
            "sensetop": "cooperate (with somebody) (in/on something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The two groups agreed to cooperate with each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had cooperated closely in the planning of the project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two companies are cooperating in the development of a new engine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are cooperating on a research project."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fully", "closely"],
                "verb + cooperate": ["will", "would", "agree to"],
                "preposition": ["in", "on", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be helpful by doing what somebody asks you to do",
            "sensetop": "cooperate (with somebody/something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their captors told them they would be killed unless they cooperated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has agreed to cooperate with the employment survey."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fully", "closely"],
                "verb + cooperate": ["will", "would", "agree to"],
                "preposition": ["in", "on", "with"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɒpəreɪt/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɒpəreɪts/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɒpəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪt/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪts/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɑːpəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/cooperate/cooperating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin cooperat- ‘worked together’, from the verb cooperari, from co- ‘together’ + operari ‘to work’."
}