ghostwriter

See also: ghost writer

English

Alternative forms

• ghost writer

Etymology

ghost +‎ writer

Noun

ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)

1. A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

   Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.

Translations

professional writer for another person

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捉刀手 (zhuōdāoshǒu), 代筆者, 代笔者 (dàibǐ zhě)

• Danish: neger (da) c
• Esperanto: fantoma verkisto
• Finnish: haamukirjoittaja (fi)
• French: prête-plume (fr) m or f, nègre littéraire (fr) m, nègre (fr) m, écrivain fantôme (fr) m
• German: Ghostwriter (de) m, Phantomschreiber m
• Italian: ghostwriter m, scrittore ombra m

• Japanese: ゴーストライター (ja) (gōsutoraitā), 代作者 (だいさくしゃ, daisakusha)
• Korean: 대작자 (daejakja)
• Malay: penulis siluman
• Polish: murzyn (pl) m (pejorative)
• Portuguese: ghostwriter m or f
• Romanian: negru literar m, scriitor fantomă m
• Russian: литерату́рный негр (ru) m (literatúrnyj negr), негр (ru) m (negr)
• Spanish: negro (es) m, escritor fantasma f
• Swedish: spökskrivare (sv) c

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English ghostwriter.

Noun

ghostwriter m, f (plural ghostwriters)

1. ghostwriter (professional writer for another person)