What does collaboration mean?

Definitions for collaboration
kəˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃəncol·lab·o·ra·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. collaboration, coactionnoun

    act of working jointly

    "they worked either in collaboration or independently"

  2. collaboration, collaborationism, quislingismnoun

    act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

GCIDE

  1. Collaborationnoun

    the act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.

Wiktionary

  1. collaborationnoun

    The act of collaborating.

    Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.

  2. collaborationnoun

    A production or creation made by collaborating.

    The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.

  3. collaborationnoun

    Treasonous cooperation.

    He has been charged with collaboration.

  4. Etymology: Originated 1855–60 from collaboration, from collaboratus + -ion, from con- + laboro.

Wikipedia

  1. Collaboration

    Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group. Teams that work collaboratively often access greater resources, recognition and rewards when facing competition for finite resources.Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication. Such methods aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem-solving. Collaboration is present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common use of the term. In its applied sense, "(a) collaboration is a purposeful relationship in which all parties strategically choose to cooperate in order to accomplish a shared outcome."

ChatGPT

  1. collaboration

    Collaboration refers to the process of two or more people, organizations, or entities working together to achieve a common goal. It involves sharing ideas, resources, responsibilities, and decisions, and often requires effective communication, planning, coordination, and mutual respect or trust. Collaboration can occur in different fields and contexts, such as in business, science, education, and art.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Collaborationnoun

    the act of working together; united labor

Wikidata

  1. Collaboration

    Collaboration is working with each other to do a task. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group. In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources. Collaboration is also present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common case for using the word. Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication. These methods specifically aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem solving. Forms, rubrics, charts and graphs are useful in these situations to objectively document personal traits with the goal of improving performance in current and future projects.

Editors Contribution

  1. collaboration

    The act and process of to collaborate.

    Collaboration between governments is ideal as we all know on this planet we are one intelligent humanity and universe working together to ensure we achieve the Sustainable development goals.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 22, 2020  

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'collaboration' in Nouns Frequency: #2421

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of collaboration in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of collaboration in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of collaboration in a Sentence

  1. Google News:

    People want access to quality news and creative content online, we've always said that more innovation and collaboration are the best way to achieve a sustainable future for the European news and creative sectors.

  2. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology:

    The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is nothing less than the commoditization and monetization of American Democracy.

  3. South African:

    There is also close collaboration between the AU team and the World Bank to ensure that member states are able to access about $5 billion either to buy more vaccines or pay for delivery of vaccines committed on their behalf by Afreximbank.

  4. Lady Gaga:

    Bradley Cooper really believed in me for the role of Ally Maine in'A Star Is Born' and the way that he empowered me to take helm of that character as well as take helm of the soundtrack and work with him so closely on a movie about music and a movie about musicians, it really was the success of our artistic collaboration and I think it landed me where I am now.

  5. Tom Rosenberg:

    Kids are going to have the opportunity to try new things, practice making friends again, they’re going to get to practice communication skills, practice problem solving, and collaboration skills, and there going to get to be creative. Kids can have the summer that they need and kids really need summer this year.

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