collaborate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre.[1] Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)
- To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
- Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.
- Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate.
- To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
- If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to work together on a piece of work
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to cooperate treasonably
References
[edit]- “collaborate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “collaborate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
- "collaborate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “collaborate (v.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]collaborate
- inflection of collaborare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]collaborate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]collabōrāte
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