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collaborate, v.|kəˈlæbəreɪt|
[f. mod.F. collaborer, or its original, L. collabōrā-re (f. col- together + labōrāre to work, labour): see -ate.]
1. intr. To work in conjunction with another or others, to co-operate; esp. in a literary or artistic production, or the like.
1871J. H. Appleton Life & Lit. Relics (1881) 25 The collaborators of the Revue critique, especially those who collaborate for the Academy. 1882V. Lee in Contemp. Rev. XLII. 850 Composers who collaborated with Metastasio in the opera of the eighteenth century.
2. spec. To co-operate traitorously with the enemy.
1941Ann. Reg. 1940 165 The futility of attempts to ‘collaborate’ with their German conquerors. 1943Times 5 June 5/2 Not all have a record as black as Laval's... There were some who collaborated with a sick heart. 1959Observer 8 Mar. 1/2 Certain Africans who had collaborated with the Government.
Hence collaborating ppl. a., etc.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. I. 269 The ingenious work of the collaborating authors. |