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collaboration|kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən| [n. of action, f. L. collabōrāre to collaborate: prob. immediately from French.] 1. United labour, co-operation; esp. in literary, artistic, or scientific work.
1860C. Reade Eighth Commandm. 374 It is plain that collaboration was not less..than it now is in France. 1889Spectator 19 Oct. 522/1 Improvised by that fertile writer in collaboration with MM. Arsène Houssaye and Verteuil. 2. spec. Traitorous cooperation with the enemy.
1940Economist 26 Oct. 511/2 Pétain may be outvoted on the question of mitigating the peace terms by some sort of shameful collaboration. 1941Ann. Reg. 1940 162 In foreign affairs the watchword of the Vichy Government was ‘collaboration’ with the German conquerors. 1945A. Huxley Let. 2 Apr. (1969) 517 He had been imprisoned—the only French author, besides Maurras, to have been so treated for collaboration. So collaboˈrationism, the practice of collaboration; collaboˈrationist, a collaborator; also attrib. or as adj.
1922Contemp. Rev. CXXII. 582 They should also profit from the expulsion of Signor Turati and the ‘Collaborationists’ from the Socialist party. 1923Ibid. CXXIII. 151 The Socialist Party..had again split up into a collaborationist and an anti-collaborationist group. 1942W. Simpson One of our Pilots vi. 192 Those of them..who were a hundred per cent collaborationists, who had thrown in their lot with the hated enemy. 1943Times 9 June 5/6 Marcel Déat..outbidding Laval in the ardour of his collaborationism, continues to support..the existing administration. 1946Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 4/6 The mania for buying forbidden books..is now responsible for the belated vogue of collaborationist works. 1958E. Hyams Taking it Easy 69 Dutchmen..denounced each other as collaborationists unworthy to be employed by the Allies. 1968Listener 5 Sept. 291/1 The Russians were genuinely astonished..that they couldn't find collaborationist politicians prepared to overthrow Tito. |