Collaboration and Cooperation

These two terms are used differently. A Google search reveals that this is much written about. On one hand it is odd that they are used differently, given that "co" is common to both and that "labor" is work and "opera" ls the Latin plural of "opus" which also means work. On the other hand, we well know that no two words can mean quite the same.

The Word Sketch Differences below show that the verbs in red collocate with cooperation, those in green with collaboration. "Subject of" means that our nouns perform these verbs. "Object of" means that someone or something verbs collab or coop.

You can generate Sketch Differences on the Brown corpus here.