community cooperation
Shared local effort
Community cooperation is coordinated effort among people who share a place, interest, or identity to achieve common goals.
It emphasizes voluntary participation and mutual benefit rather than top-down direction: The garden thrived through community cooperation.
The phrase appears often in discussions of local organizing, disaster response, and neighborhood improvement projects.
- togethernessState of close connection
- coming togetherAct of assembling
- neighborsThose dwelling nearby
- good neighborConsiderate person living nearby
- solidarityUnity among allies
shared · village · mutual aid · lending a hand · barn raising · pitching in · potluck · bake sale · grassroots · food drive · volunteering · collective · teamwork · gathering · trust · helping hands · neighborhood watch · local
community cooperationgoing it alone
Acting independently, unassisted
self-reliance · rugged individualism · unilateral action · atomization · every man for himself
community cooperationinfighting
Rivalry within one organization
tribal warfare · factionalism · sectarian violence · divisiveness · polarization
community cooperationsocial isolation
Lack of human contact
every man for himself · societal collapse · anomie · alienation · disintegration
community, cooperation, commune, communal, communally, communes, communing, communist, communism