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Princeton's WordNet

  1. collaborativeadjective

    accomplished by collaboration

    "collaborative research"

GCIDE

  1. collaborativeadjective

    accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive.

Wiktionary

  1. collaborativenoun

    An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal

  2. collaborativeadjective

    Of, relating to, or done by collaboration.

Wikipedia

  1. collaborative

    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."

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  1. collaborative

    Collaborative refers to the process of two or more people, groups or organizations working together towards a common goal or objective. This cooperation typically involves sharing information, resources, responsibilities and decision-making. The process can take on different forms such as problem-solving, project management or creative endeavors, among others. The underlying principle is the belief that the collective output of a group is greater than the sum of individual contributions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of collaborative in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of collaborative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of collaborative in a Sentence

  1. Cora Breuner:

    We have to get more parental and community involvement so that it's a collaborative effort between the schools, the parents and the communities to get kids off the screens, to exercise more and to spend more time with each other socially versus isolating themselves.

  2. Carlyn Hicks:

    It didn't take a whole lot of convincing for me to be collaborative and responsive, as opposed to reactive, to( a child's) actions.

  3. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano:

    We are working to construct a common system which goes beyond the Dublin treaty, which is now obsolete in practice, making the mechanism less rigid and more collaborative.

  4. Mark Brown/Getty Images:

    I think if you look at it, it’s really communication and collaboration. I don’t think there is any organization in this country that unless you have excellent communication and collaborative efforts within the whole organization, that you can really win and sustain yourself in the long term.

  5. Iris Cardona:

    It's a collaborative exercise, given the difficulties that the whole world knows Puerto Rico has endured in the last five years -- hurricanes, earthquakes, political and fiscal crises -- the Puerto Rican people at all levels have cooperated.

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