participation

The word “participation” has 5 syllables: par-ti-ci-pa-tion

It's pronounced as /pɑːrˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for participation?

In the thesaurus, “participation” has 46 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for participation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for participation

  • activity
  • affair
  • aid
  • assignment
  • assistance
  • attendance
  • business
  • calling
  • capacity
  • charge
  • commission
  • concern
  • concurrence
  • contribution
  • cooperation
  • duty
  • employ
  • encouragement
  • function
  • hand
  • help
  • involvement
  • job
  • joining in
  • mission
  • niche
  • occupation
  • office
  • part
  • place
  • position
  • post
  • presence
  • purpose
  • pursuit
  • responsibility
  • role
  • service
  • sharing
  • situation
  • support
  • taking part
  • task
  • use
  • vocation
  • work

Antonyms for participation

  • absence
  • avoidance
  • blockage
  • eschewal
  • hindrance
  • hurt
  • injury
  • noninvolvement
  • nonparticipation
  • obstruction
  • stop
  • stoppage

Meanings of participation

  • noun
    1. The act of participating, of taking part in something.
    2. The state of being related to a larger whole.
    3. The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
    4. An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.

Example Sentences

  • His participation in the project was crucial to its success.
  • The company rewards employees for their active participation in team activities.
  • Everyone's participation in the meeting is highly encouraged.
  • Participation in the event is free, but registration is required.
  • The class participation points are added to your final grade.

On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to participation, such as: absence, activity, affair, aid, assignment, assistance, attendance.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • nurturance
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  • paw
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  • philanthropy
  • point
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  • portion
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  • power
  • print
  • pro
  • procurement
  • professional
  • proficient
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  • reach
  • reading
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  • repossession
  • respect
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  • top
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  • whiz
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  • workingwoman
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  • workwoman
  • yes-man
  • yield

job

  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • advance
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  • appointment
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  • assignment
  • assume
  • bear
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  • berth
  • billet
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  • business
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  • capacity
  • care
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  • commitment
  • compulsion
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  • connection
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  • contribution
  • craft
  • daily grind
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  • designation
  • detail
  • devoir
  • drudgery
  • duty
  • effort
  • employ
  • employment
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  • engage
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  • enlist
  • enterprise
  • errand
  • faculty
  • fee
  • function
  • gig
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  • hand
  • handicraft
  • headache
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  • heavy lifting
  • hire
  • involvement
  • killer
  • labor
  • lay on
  • lifework
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  • occupation
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  • part
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  • place
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  • practice
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  • racket
  • rat race
  • recruit
  • reemploy
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  • requirement
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  • restraint
  • retain
  • role
  • round
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  • take on
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  • taskwork
  • thing
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  • trade
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  • upgrade
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  • vocation
  • weight
  • work

task

  • activity
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  • allocate
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  • capacity
  • care
  • char
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  • commit
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  • fun and games
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  • mission
  • niche
  • nuisance
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  • onus
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  • oppress
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  • part
  • participation
  • place
  • position
  • post
  • project
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  • responsibility
  • role
  • round
  • route
  • saddle
  • service
  • situation
  • stint
  • strain
  • tax
  • test
  • toil
  • trouble
  • trust
  • undertaking
  • use
  • vocation
  • weary
  • weigh
  • weight
  • work

capacity

part

  • abandon
  • abscond
  • activity
  • adjourn
  • affair
  • allotment
  • allowance
  • antagonist
  • any
  • apportionment
  • articulate
  • articulation
  • assignment
  • atom
  • bail
  • bail out
  • beat it
  • begone
  • behalf
  • belt
  • bestrew
  • bifurcate
  • bisect
  • bit
  • bit part
  • bite
  • bite the dust
  • book
  • branch
  • break
  • break down
  • break off
  • break up
  • broadcast
  • bug off
  • bug out
  • bugger off
  • business
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • calling
  • cameo
  • capacity
  • cause
  • character
  • charge
  • check out
  • chip
  • chunk
  • clear off
  • clear out
  • cleave
  • come apart
  • commission
  • component
  • concern
  • constituent
  • consume
  • corridor
  • croak
  • cut
  • cut and run
  • cut off
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • decease
  • decompose
  • decouple
  • dedomicile
  • demise
  • depart
  • department
  • desert
  • detach
  • detail
  • dialogue
  • dichotomize
  • die
  • dig out
  • disappear
  • disassemble
  • disassociate
  • disband
  • disconnect
  • disengage
  • disentangle
  • disintegrate
  • disjoin
  • disjoint
  • dismantle
  • dispel
  • disperse
  • dissect
  • dissever
  • dissipate
  • dissociate
  • dissolve
  • distance
  • distribute
  • district
  • disunite
  • diverge
  • divide
  • division
  • divorce
  • domain
  • drop
  • dry up
  • duty
  • ease out
  • element
  • emigrate
  • employ
  • end
  • enough
  • escape
  • evacuate
  • exit
  • expire
  • extra
  • faction
  • factor
  • fade
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  • fairly
  • fall
  • flatline
  • flee
  • fly
  • fork
  • forsake
  • fraction
  • fractionalize
  • fractionate
  • fracture
  • fragment
  • fragmentarily
  • fragmentate
  • fragmentize
  • function
  • get
  • get off
  • get out
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • go off
  • go out
  • go separate ways
  • half
  • halfway
  • halve
  • hand
  • helping
  • hero
  • hit the road
  • hunk
  • in part
  • incompletely
  • ingredient
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  • insulate
  • involvement
  • isolate
  • item
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  • job
  • kick in
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  • kick the bucket
  • kind of
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  • quit the scene
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  • service
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  • share
  • ship out
  • shove off
  • side
  • silent bit
  • situation
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  • slab
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  • snuff it
  • something
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  • start
  • step out
  • stock character
  • straight part
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  • succumb
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  • take a walk
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  • vacate
  • vamoose
  • vicinity
  • villain
  • vocation
  • walk out
  • walk out on
  • walk-on
  • withdraw
  • work
  • zone

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