Cooperate vs Synergy - What's the difference?
cooperate | synergy |
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.
Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
(medicine) Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
(pharmacology) An interaction between drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
Benefits resulting from combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.
As a verb cooperate
is to work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.As a noun synergy is
behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.cooperate
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Alternative forms
* co-operate (UK), (uncommon)Verb
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