collaboratev.
/kəˈlabəreɪt/, U.S. /kəˈlæbəˌreɪt/ 1. intransitive. To work in conjunction with another or others, to co-operate; esp. in a literary or artistic production, or the like.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)]
conjoin1532
conspirea1538
concurc1550
co-operate1604
coadjute1612
coacta1616
to jump in quilla1616
co-operate1616
co-opere1663
to pull together1772
rally1792
to row in1861
collaborate1871
to play ball (with)1903
to play along1929
play1937
1871 J. H. Appleton Life & Lit. Relics (1881) 25 The collaborators of the Revue critique, especially those who collaborate for the Academy.
1882 V. Lee in Contemp. Rev. 42 850 Composers who collaborated with Metastasio in the opera of the eighteenth century.
2. spec. To co-operate traitorously with the enemy.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > act treacherously [verb (intransitive)] > collaborate with enemy
quisle1940
collaborate1941
1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 165 The futility of attempts to ‘collaborate’ with their German conquerors.
1943 Times 5 June 5/2 Not all have a record as black as Laval's... There were some who collaborated with a sick heart.
1959 Observer 8 Mar. 1/2 Certain Africans who had collaborated with the Government.
Derivatives
collaborating adj. etc.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [adjective]
concurrent1532
conspiring1576
co-operant1598
co-operative1603
coadjuting1612
coadjutive1628
concurring1633
coadjutant1706
co-agent1840
coacting1843
synergetical1856
collaborating1872
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xv. 269 The ingenious work of the collaborating authors.
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