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
Even François Mitterrand, who became French president during the 1980s, had a collaborationist past.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
Condemned to death after France’s liberation in 1945 for leading the collaborationist Vichy regime, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in the Citadel.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 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
Vichy was the collaborationist French administration during the Nazi occupation.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2021
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