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# collaborative

«collaborative» in Mova's school dictionary: **Done by people working together, not alone: «a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (collaborative; more collaborative, most collaborative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Done by people working together, not alone: «a collaborative project». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#m1)

2) Good at working with others or liking to share work: «a collaborative team». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school reports and lesson plans it describes group work: «collaborative learning», «collaborative writing», «a collaborative art piece». In science and business it describes shared research and teamwork. Phrases: «collaborative project», «collaborative learning», «collaborative effort», «in a collaborative way».

### examples

- The mural was a collaborative project by the whole school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x1)
- Our class story was collaborative: everybody wrote one page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x2)
- Scientists say that most big discoveries are collaborative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x3)
- The coach praised the team for its collaborative spirit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x4)
- We use a collaborative document so we can all type at the same time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x5)
- Building the robot was a collaborative effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/#x6)

### note

It comes from the verb «collaborate» with the ending -ive. Spelled with double l. The adverb is «collaboratively» (we worked collaboratively). Similar: cooperative, joint, shared. The opposite is individual or solo.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collaborative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collaborative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.