gotong-royong
(uncountable, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) Cooperation by members of a community to achieve a common goal.
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(uncountable, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) Cooperation by members of a community to achieve a common goal.
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(countable, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) An event where people clean up a place, such as sweeping and removing rubbish.
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(Singapore, informal) The same; identical.
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(Singapore) A sense of social cohesion in a community and a willingness of neighbours to co-operate with each other.
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(Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia) A benevolent organization of popular origin found among overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname.
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(intransitive, figurative) To harmonize socially; to come to an amicable agreement; to ally or band together.