voluntary cooperation

collocation in English

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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cooperation
noun[U]
uk
/kəʊˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/koʊˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the act of working together with someone or doing what they ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandcooperationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To implement their decisions they needed eithervoluntarycooperationon the part of other officials or an imperial edict to force the issue.
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These conflicts have arisen at a time whenvoluntarycooperationis urgently needed.
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Consequently, the diversification of economic and political relations within a more liberal development model has requiredvoluntarycooperationbetween private and state actors.
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This was not regulatory competition in a strict sense; rather it wasvoluntarycooperation.
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In addition, the information is collected from a small number of informants, depending much on personal contacts andvoluntarycooperationbetween informants.
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The other isvoluntarycooperationof individuals - the technique of the market place.
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From this perspective, market and state are looked at as different kinds of arenas in which people may realize mutual gains fromvoluntarycooperation.
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He is not willing to ask for thevoluntarycooperationof the leaders of industry in this country.
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There are powers, but it is far better to act onvoluntarycooperation.
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The answer must be that it will have to bevoluntarycooperation.
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This will enable him to introduce statutory joint arrangements ifvoluntarycooperationis not adequate to achieve this.
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Nevertheless, in considering this and any marketing scheme one should start with the general principle thatvoluntarycooperationis better than compulsory co-operation.
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That test anti-clutter operation showed a very high degree ofvoluntarycooperationbetween the shopkeepers and the advertisers.
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But this is a voluntary service, and in my view it is better to rely on thevoluntarycooperationof employers.
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We think that that kind ofvoluntarycooperationis better than forcing every country of the 12 to co-operate.
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A free society must be a libertarian society and that libertarian society must incorporate a free market andvoluntarycooperation.
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However, we cannot shake off this concern withvoluntarycooperation, good will and the best practices.
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We hope to proceed, in the main, byvoluntarycooperationof all concerned.
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I know of at least two firms in this country which believe involuntarycooperation.
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These arrangements, which are kept under constant review, are based on the principle ofvoluntarycooperation.
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