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co-operate (third-person singular simple present co-operates, present participle co-operating, simple past and past participle co-operated)
- (UK) Alternative spelling of cooperate
1911, John Richard Hale, “The Battle of Yalu 1894”, in Famous Sea Fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima, 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., published 1912, →OCLC, page 262:On Friday, 14 September–the same day on which the Chinese convoy with the reinforcements for Manchuria left Taku–Ito had completed his work in connection with the transport of Japanese troops, having landed the last detachments at Chinampo in the estuary of the Ta-tung River. Higher up the river General Nodzu's army was attaching the Chinese walled town of Ping-yang. Ito sent his gunboats up the Ta-tung to co-operate with Nodzu, and leaving his torpedo boats at the river mouth, went to sea with his fleet.
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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