co-operate

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See also: cooperate and coöperate

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co-operate (third-person singular simple present co-operates, present participle co-operating, simple past and past participle co-operated)

  1. (UK) Alternative spelling of cooperate
    • 1946, Lin Yutang, The Vigil of a Nation, William Heinemann, page viii:
      I am personally willing to assist in any international group to visit various localities in Hopei to verify the burial alive of hundreds of people who refused to co-operate with the "anti-Japanese" Red regime and were therefore "traitors". Such things do not make Edgar Snow angry.

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