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Definition: Collaborative |
CollaborativeAdjective1. Accomplished by collaboration; "collaborative research". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COG | English | Collaborative Open Group | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Collaborative |
| Specialty definitions using "collaborative": Advanced Mobile Analytical Laboratory, Alvey ♦ CNC, Cooperative Information System ♦ National Rural Development Partnership ♦ State rural development councils ♦ The Arabidopsis Information Resource. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ranchers in California set aside portions of their farms for collaborative studies on methyl bromide alternatives for strawberries. Plant pathologist Carolee Bull (right) and technician Adria Bordas evaluate biologically based methods for weed and disease control at Rod Koda's ranch. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Decision making about home monitoring is a collaborative enterprise. (references) | |
The results of the collaborative SCU studies will need to be reviewed carefully. (references) | ||
The NIA Collaborative Studies Initiative was established to address SCU research from a variety of perspectives. (references) | ||
Business | Therefore, local and overseas PCT companies are offered collaborative opportunities to develop new products. (references) | |
This customer convenience is expected to be offered as a possible collaborative venture to non-competing local retailers. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | There also was concern that collaborative research with foreigners may become more difficult. (references) |
Economic History | Russia | DoD also has initiated a CTR program to fund collaborative biotechnical research with former biological weapons scientists to prevent the proliferation of biological weapons expertise and technology, increase access to Russian scientists, and to enhance the transparency of their work. (references) |
Trade | Israel | The USISTC promotes collaborative science and technology activities between interested private sector entities. (references) |
Women | Guyana | The Women's Leadership Institute, a collaborative effort between the Government and the UNDP, seeks through education and training to facilitate greater women's participation in government and the private sector. (references) |
Botswana | While some women's rights groups reportedly felt that the Government has been slow to respond concretely to their concerns, women's NGO's state that they are encouraged by the direction of change and by the increasingly collaborative relationship with government authorities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Collaborative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.08% of the time. "Collaborative" is used about 484 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.08% | 466 | 12,650 |
| Noun (common) | 3.92% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 484 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "collaborative": collaborative test ♦ Open system for collaborative authoring and reuse. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "collaborative": non-collaborative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "collaborative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | متعاون (collaborator, concurrent, cooperating, cooperative, cooperator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 共同 (common, joint, jointly, together), 合作 (collaborate, Collaboration, Cooperation, Cooperative, Partnership). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | Partenariat de collaboration sur les forêts (Collaborative Partnership on Forests). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | behilflich (cooperative, helpful, helping, instrumentally). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コミュニケーション科学基礎 "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コラボレイティブ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 협조 (coordinate, Coordinating). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollaborativecay совместный (co operative, collective, cooperative, co-operative, jnt joint, joint, joint-development, mutual, participatory). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collaborative": collaboratively, collaboratives. (additional references) | |
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"Collaborative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colaborative, collaboratiive, collabortive, collabrative, colloborative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collaborative" (pronounced kula"berā'tiv or kula"brutiv) |
| 6 | -b er ā' t i v | deliberative. |
| 5 | -er ā' t i v | cooperative, iterative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, authoritative, dissipative, elucidative, facultative, imitative, innovative, investigative, legislative, manipulative, meditative, prognosticative, qualitative, quantitative, regulative, rehabilitative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
| 5 | -r u t i v | commemorative, comparative, curative, decorative, demonstrative, illustrative, imperative, interpretive, lucrative, narrative, nutritive, pejorative, restorative, secretive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, communicative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, definitive, degenerative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, imaginative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, intuitive, laxative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, operative, palliative, participative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-l-o-o-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: collaborate. | |
-3 letters: alleviator, labiovelar, vacillator, vorticella. | |
-4 letters: aerobatic, aleatoric, allocator, bacterial, bilateral, caballero, cabriolet, calibrate, colorable, corollate, locatable, vacillate, varicella, vectorial. | |
-5 letters: ablative, abortive, albacore, albicore, allocate, alveolar, arillate, bacillar, bacteria, balletic, balloter, bloviate, bootlace, boracite, braciola, braciole, bracteal, brocatel, cabrilla, cabriole, cartable, cavalero, cavalier, caveator, caviller, clitoral, collaret, collator, coverall, erotical, evocator, laborite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-l-o-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: collaboratives. | |
+2 letters: collaboratively. | |
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