collaborationn.
/kəˌlabəˈreɪʃən/ 1. United labour, co-operation; esp. in literary, artistic, or scientific work.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [noun]
co-operation1495
concurrence1525
conspiring1561
concomitation1563
consort1590
concurring1594
concurrency1596
concurrent1605
communion1614
coadjutement1618
coaction1625
synergy1632
concourse1635
coadjuvancy1646
coactivity1659
co-operancya1670
synenergya1680
tandem1851
collaboration1860
coadjuvation1875
1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 374 It is plain that collaboration was not less..than it now is in France.
1889 Spectator 19 Oct. 522/1 Improvised by that fertile writer in collaboration with MM. Arsène Houssaye and Verteuil.
2. spec. Traitorous cooperation with the enemy.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > co-operation with enemy
collaboration1940
collaborationism1943
1940 Economist 26 Oct. 511/2 Pétain may be outvoted on the question of mitigating the peace terms by some sort of shameful collaboration.
1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 162 In foreign affairs the watchword of the Vichy Government was ‘collaboration’ with the German conquerors.
1945 A. Huxley Let. 2 Apr. (1969) 517 He had been imprisoned—the only French author, besides Maurras, to have been so treated for collaboration.
Derivatives
collaboˈrationism n. the practice of collaboration.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > co-operation with enemy
collaboration1940
collaborationism1943
1943 Times 9 June 5/6 Marcel Déat..outbidding Laval in the ardour of his collaborationism, continues to support..the existing administration.
collaboˈrationist n. a collaborator; also attributive or as adj.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > co-operation with enemy > one who
collaborationist1922
quisler1940
quisling1940
Quislingist1940
Quislingite1940
collaborator1943
collaborateur1955
1922 Contemp. Rev. 122 582 They should also profit from the expulsion of Signor Turati and the ‘Collaborationists’ from the Socialist party.
1923 Contemp. Rev. 123 151 The Socialist Party..had again split up into a collaborationist and an anti-collaborationist group.
1942 W. Simpson One of our Pilots is Safe vi. 192 Those of them..who were a hundred per cent collaborationists, who had thrown in their lot with the hated enemy.
1946 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 4/6 The mania for buying forbidden books..is now responsible for the belated vogue of collaborationist works.
1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy 69 Dutchmen..denounced each other as collaborationists unworthy to be employed by the Allies.
1968 Listener 5 Sept. 291/1 The Russians were genuinely astonished..that they couldn't find collaborationist politicians prepared to overthrow Tito.
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