Cooperate vs Connive - What's the difference?
cooperate | connive |
To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
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To allow for mutual unobstructed action
To function in harmony, side by side
To engage in economic cooperation.
to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude
to plot or scheme
to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
* Macaulay
(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
* Spectator
to be a wench
English control verbs
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As verbs the difference between cooperate and connive
is that cooperate is to work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit while connive is to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude.cooperate
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Alternative forms
* co-operate (UK), (uncommon)Verb
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Usage notes
The usual pronunciation of 'oo' is /u?/ or /?/. The dieresis in the spelling emphasizes that the second o begins a separate syllable. However, the dieresis is becoming increasingly rare in US English typography, so the spelling cooperate predominates. See also .Synonyms
* to coact * make common causeReferences
* * * ----connive
English
Verb
(conniv)- to connive at what it does not approve
- In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .
- The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
- The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.