cooperative

Willing to listen, help, and work well with other people.

• The staff were very cooperative.
• She remained cooperative during the interview.
• Are the children cooperative with their new teacher?

How to use it: cooperative with someone (He was cooperative with the police.)

Similar words: helpful, willing, accommodating

Opposites: uncooperative

Common phrases: cooperative staff, be cooperative, cooperative with someone

Involving several people or groups working together to achieve something.

• It was a cooperative effort.
• The schools started a cooperative research project.
• Cooperative games encourage children to help each other.

Similar words: joint, collaborative

Common phrases: cooperative effort, cooperative project, cooperative learning, cooperative game

A business owned and run by its workers, customers, or the people who use it.

• The shop is a cooperative.
• Farmers formed a cooperative to sell their milk.
• Members of the housing cooperative share repair costs.

Similar words: co-op

Common phrases: housing cooperative, farmers’ cooperative, join a cooperative