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collaborative
[ kuh-lab-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv ]
adjective
- characterized or accomplished by cooperation or working together:
collaborative methods;
a collaborative report.
- relating to or involving several organizations, groups, people, etc., working together for a common purpose:
My doctor is now part of a collaborative practice.
Modern policing is trending toward collaborative law enforcement, where police officers work hand-in-hand with community leaders and neighborhood associations.
noun
- a group of people working together for a common purpose:
The collaborative of doctors was able to gather important new information about the illness by pooling anonymized patient data.
Other Word Forms
- DZ····پ· adverb
- ܲ·DZ····پ adjective
- un·DZ····پ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of collaborative1
Example Sentences
In March, Aparicio participated in the painting of a collaborative mural as part of a climate rally at the Pasadena Community Job Center.
“Overall, I think the general tone is pointing more towards holding Mexico accountable, although there’s some acknowledgment that it’s going to be a collaborative effort on both sides of the border,” Chairez said.
He said a collaborative effort with US authorities and the UK Border Force meant officers arrested him at Cardiff Airport "before he was able to cause any physical harm to the victim".
It felt like performing, but it also felt collaborative.
"I thrive in collaborative environments where I can leverage my international perspective," she wrote on her LinkedIn profile.
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does collaborative mean?
Collaborative is an adjective that describes an effort in which people work together (that is, one in which they collaborate).
Collaborative is often used in a positive context to refer to two or more parties successfully working together on a goal or shared project. It’s also increasingly used as a noun for an organized joint effort.
Example: The groundbreaking new album was a collaborative effort by the two musicians, who usually have very different styles.
Where does collaborative come from?
Collaborative is formed from the combination of the verb collaborate, meaning to work together or cooperate, and the suffix -ive, which is used to form adjectives expressing tendency, function, etc. Collaborate was first recorded between 1870–75 and collaborative soon followed, recorded by the early 1900s.
Collaborative can be used in any context in which people work together: art, business, education—the collaborative possibilities are endless. The word is usually used to describe the process of working together (a collaborative effort between two artists to paint a mural) or the result of such a process (a collaborative report issued by all three departments).
More recently, collaborative has come to be used as a noun referring to an organized group effort, especially one involving a community (a neighborhood service collaborative).
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are some other forms of collaborative?
- collaboratively (adverb)
are some synonyms for collaborative?
are some words that share a root or word element with collaborative?
are some words that often get used in discussing collaborative?
How is collaborative used in real life?
Collaborative can be used for many different situations, and is particularly associated with cooperative processes that are creative or artistic.
State Champs, Simple Plan and We The Kings are dropping a collaborative single tonight
— Rock Sound (@rocksound)
In open source, you don't "win" by "defeating the competition." You succeed by building something useful and creating a collaborative space that is attractive to would-be participants.
— M Butcher (@technosophos)
President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated for collaborative efforts to tackle maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea. President Buhari made the call at the first Global Maritime security conference which began yesterday in Abuja.
Read more:— Daily Trust (@daily_trust)
Try using collaborative!
Which of the following words could be considered an antonym of collaborative?
A. Collective
B. Uncooperative
C. Joint
D. Coordinating
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