collaborator
Americannoun
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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.
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. ); collaborate ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre described eight of the new species, working alongside collaborators from institutions around the world.
From Science Daily
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, along with international collaborators, have now identified an unexpected factor behind the drug's effects: the brain.
From Science Daily
Working with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Queen Mary University of London, Nieh and his team studied bees in controlled hives designed to mimic natural conditions.
From Science Daily
Researchers at Cornell University, working with collaborators, have created an extremely small neural implant that can sit on a grain of salt.
From Science Daily
Idle has for more than a decade been largely estranged from his former collaborators, but said he prefers not to linger on that fact.
From Los Angeles Times
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