collaborationist
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of collaborationist
First recorded in 1920–25; collaboration + -ist
Example Sentences
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Weirdly, he had persuaded Stein to translate the speeches of Philippe Pétain, the leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind bars.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
Even François Mitterrand, who became French president during the 1980s, had a collaborationist past.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024
Now, she said, “people are talking about who was a collaborationist, who worked for the enemy.”
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
He has, for instance, drawn ire for falsely stating that Marshall Philippe Petain, who headed France’s collaborationist World War II Vichy government, saved Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
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