jointly
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[change]Adverb
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- When two or more people do something jointly, they do it together; they cooperate on it.
- The President told his staff that he liked to make decisions jointly. He liked to get everybody's opinion and decide as a group what was best, instead of just making decisions on his own.
- The teacher told her students: "You may do this project jointly. Please pick one other student who you would like to work with."
- When two things cause something jointly, both things caused it to happen.
- The police decided that both drivers caused the car accident jointly, because they were both driving too fast and talking on their cell phones.
- Slavery, different ideas about government, and many other things were all jointly responsible for causing the American Civil War.