互助|ごじょgojo[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. nounmutual aid; cooperation; benefit

• Synonym持ちつ持たれつもちつもたれつCasualColloquial set phrase: you help me, I help you; stresses give-and-take, back-and-forth exchange. More conversational than 「互助」.
• Related相互依存そうごいぞんWrittenWritten/formal: a relationship of mutual dependence and support; stresses reliance on each other, not necessarily acts of helping.
• Antonym対立たいりつNeutralNeutral antonym: confrontation or opposition between parties who won't yield to each other; the opposite of helping each other.
• Antonym敵対てきたいWrittenWritten/formal antonym: treating the other as an enemy and acting with hostility; the opposite of mutual help.

Use 「互助」 for mutual help, mostly in compounds like 「互助会」「互助組織」. For mutual dependence in formal prose use 「相互依存」; colloquially, 「持ちつ持たれつ」 for give-and-take. Antonyms: 「対立」 (opposition) and 「敵対」 (hostility).

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1. 互たがいに助け合たすけあうこと。