collaboration

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + French -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən/, SAMPA: /k@%l{b@"reIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

collaboration (plural collaborations)

1. (uncountable) The act of collaborating.

   Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.

2. (countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.

   The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.

3. (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.

   He has been charged with collaboration.

Related terms

• collaborate
• collaborative
• collaboratively

Translations

act of collaborating

Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 合作 (cmn) (hézuò) Czech: spolupráce (cs) f. Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f., het samenwerken (nl) Esperanto: kunlaboraĵo (eo), kunlaborado (eo), kunlaboro (eo) Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), myötävaikuttaminen (fi), myötävaikutus (fi), kollaboraatio (fi) French: collaboration (fr) f. German: Kollektivarbeit (de) f., Zusammenarbeit (de) f. Hungarian: együttműködés (hu)

Italian: collaborazione (it) f. Japanese: コラボレーション, 協調 (ja) (kyōchō), 協力 (ja) (kyōryoku), 共働 (ja) (きょうどう, kyōdō) Polish: współpraca (pl) f. Romanian: colaborare (ro) f., colaborări (ro) f. pl. Spanish: colaboración (es) f. Swahili: kolabo (sw) Turkish: imece (tr), iş birliği (tr)

production or creation

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: yhteistuotanto (fi)

treasonous cooperation

Chinese: Mandarin: 勾結 (cmn), 勾结 (cmn) (gōujié) Czech: kolaborace (cs) f. Dutch: collaboratie (nl) f. Finnish: myötävaikuttaminen (fi) French: collaboration (fr) f. German: Kollaboration (de) f., Zusammenarbeit (de) f.

Hungarian: kollaborálás (hu) Japanese: 裏切り (ja) (uragiri) Polish: kolaboracja (pl) f. Swahili: kolabo (sw)

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Translations to be checked

Greek: συνεργασία (el) f. (synergasía) Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shituf pe'ula) m.

References

• “collaboration” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “collaboration” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "collaboration" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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French

Etymology

From collaborer +‎ -tion, from Late Latin collaboratio, from Latin com- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /kO.la.bO.Ra.sjO~/
• Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
• Homophone: collaborations
• Hyphenation: co‧lla‧bo‧ra‧tion

Noun

collaboration f. (plural collaborations)

1. collaboration