collaborator
Americannoun
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collaborators
plural
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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.
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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.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of collaborator
First recorded in 1800–10; from French collaborateur, equivalent to Late Latin collabōrāt(us) (past participle of collabōrāre ) + -or 2 ( def. ); see collaborate ( def. )
Vocabulary lists containing collaborator
"Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" by Art Spiegelman
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Every two to three years, Professor Sayer and collaborator Pete Robinson conducted detailed vegetation surveys.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
"Today, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas," Gibbons said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He then spent a great deal of time carrying out a major overhaul of the property, alongside his longtime collaborator Nicole Fuller.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Co-founder and Harvard friend Mario Schlosser has been a collaborator ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
At Yale, Lawrence’s closest research collaborator was Jesse Beams, another rural Midwesterner—his grandparents had migrated from West Virginia to Kansas in a covered wagon.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Potts and his collaborators had previously shown that photons leaving the cavity should not automatically be treated as "waste heat" in a thermodynamic description.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hayden Panettiere’s collaborators and Hollywood peers are paying tribute to the accomplished actor after her death at age 36.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
But the transformations wrought by Gaudí and his collaborators are a triumph of architectural and sculptural imagination that has no real analogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She describes the longtime collaborators as having a “seamless rapport.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
This driving simulator is telling Dr. Atchley and his collaborators something about Maggie’s relationship to technology.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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