collaborator

[ kuh-lab-uh-rey-ter ]

noun

1. a person who works or cooperates with another on something; a coauthor, coproducer, etc.:

   She is currently at work on a new recording project with longtime collaborator Greg Timson.

2. a person who cooperates with an enemy nation or force, especially with an enemy occupying one’s country:

   Her book gives a detailed account of postwar Poland’s legal retribution against its Nazi collaborators.

Word History and Origins

Origin of collaborator¹

First recorded in 1800–10; from French collaborateur, equivalent to Late Latin collabōrāt(us) (past participle of collabōrāre ) + -or ²( def ); collaborate ( def )

Example Sentences

IBM is collaborating with leading academic medical centers like Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins University to address TechQuity.

From Fortune

Center Women and the Rainbow History Project are collaborating to create a virtual LGBTQ women’s history tour.

From Washington Blade

Leimer said fintechs should also take note of the way subscription services collaborate.

From TechCrunch

Painters, sculptors, dance choreographers and photographers have found new ways to collaborate with AI algorithms.

From Science News For Students

As a result, parents and teachers have had to learn new ways to collaborate for the sake of the kids in their shared care.

From Washington Post

Condon himself does not want to get married to Jack Morrissey, his longtime partner and professional collaborator.

From The Daily Beast

Now, al-Husseini was indeed a Nazi collaborator, but he was not “the leader” of the Muslim world.

From The Daily Beast

Most notably FWY has been a frequent collaborator of international cool kid (and ageless skincare wizard) Pharrell.

From The Daily Beast

My collaborator, Darcy Evans, and I are very insistent on calling Stealing Sam a “one-person play” and not a solo show.

From The Daily Beast

Another commonly mentioned collaborator is a famous Yazidi singer who converted to Islam years ago.

From The Daily Beast

He gets behind his collaborator—the Artist lived here, and thus history is made.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus he leaves his collaborator to think out the next chapter, for much remains to be told.

From Project Gutenberg

Finally she began looking about for a collaborator, convinced that she herself could never write an interesting line.

From Project Gutenberg

It is something to know that Pisistratus employed an editor, or that his editor employed a collaborator who was an Asiatic Greek!

From Project Gutenberg

Truly, it will not equal that of Newton, who had received the spark divine; nor even that of his collaborator Clairaut.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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