English
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Etymology
ghost + writer
Noun
ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters )
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
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Chinese:
Mandarin: 捉刀手 ( zhuōdāoshǒu ) , 代筆 者 / 代笔 者 ( dàibǐ zhě ) , 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
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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
Portuguese
Etymology
From English ghostwriter .
Noun
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ghostwriter ( professional writer for another person )