joint action
Working together cooperatively
Joint action is coordinated effort by two or more parties working together toward a shared goal.
The term appears in legal, military, and organizational contexts: The agencies took joint action against the trafficking ring.
In physiology, joint action refers to how muscles work together to move a joint.
- teamworkJoint effort toward shared aim
- working togetherActing in concert
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- allianceFormal union of parties
- joining forcesCombining efforts together
all hands on deck · partnership · solidarity · side by side · synergy · group project · project management · interagency · mutual aid · shared responsibility · collaboration · pulling together · coalition · united front · task force · reciprocity · common purpose · common ground
- social interactiongreeting, hello, goodbye, hi, bye
- agreementagree, accord, yes, yeah, yep
- international relationsbilateral talks, foreign affairs, UN, global politics, sanctions
- free willfree will, choice, volition, autonomy, initiative
collaboration vs isolation
joint actionsolo work
Creation by one person
unilateral action · solo effort · going it alone · flying solo · self-reliance