collaborate
[kuh-lab-uh-reyt]
- to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, especially with an enemy occupying one's country: He collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
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Origin of collaborate
Synonyms
See more synonyms for collaborate on Thesaurus.com2. collude, join, assist, abet.
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Examples from the Web for collaborator
Contemporary Examples
My collaborator, Darcy Evans, and I are very insistent on calling Stealing Sam a “one-person play” and not a solo show.
Into the Grindr of the Gay Dating Game: Sex, Death, and Aging in ‘Stealing Sam’Tim Teeman
September 18, 2014
That year was really the first year that I stepped over the threshold and became more of a collaborator.
As his classmate and National Lampoon collaborator John Weidman put it: "He would have used Clearasil if he could."
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National LampoonRobert Sam Anson
March 1, 2014
What is the great chronicler of the Shoah doing being chummy with a collaborator?
Confessions of a Death Camp Collaborator: Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’Jimmy So
February 7, 2014
He recently made his directorial debut—along with collaborator Nat Faxon—on the film The Way, Way Back.
Historical Examples
The next step was to secure my victim—my collaborator, I preferred to call him.
There is a Reaper ...Charles V. De Vet
It has been stated, too, that Cœlius had more than one collaborator.
"Boomerang" is the joint nom-de-plume of a Young Australian and his collaborator.
Australia RevengedBoomerang
Henry softened the rigour of his collaborator's pen in something like half an hour.
A Great ManArnold Bennett
Still, we think Wagner might have been mentioned as his collaborator.
collaborate
- (often foll by on, with, etc) to work with another or others on a joint project
- to cooperate as a traitor, esp with an enemy occupying one's own country
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Word Origin
C19: from Late Latin collabōrāre, from Latin com- together + labōrāre to work
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Word Origin and History for collaborator
collaborate
v.
1871, back-formation from collaborator. Given a bad sense in World War II. Related: Collaborated; collaborating.
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