collaborator
Americannoun
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a person who works or cooperates with another on something; a coauthor, coproducer, etc..
She is currently at work on a new recording project with longtime collaborator Greg Timson.
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a person who cooperates with an enemy nation or force, especially with an enemy occupying one’s country.
Her book gives a detailed account of postwar Poland’s legal retribution against its Nazi collaborators.
Etymology
Origin of collaborator
First recorded in 1800–10; from French collaborateur, equivalent to Late Latin collabōrāt(us) (past participle of collabōrāre ) + -or 2 ( def. ); collaborate ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The project involved collaborators from Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.
From Science Daily
John Hughes — who wrote the film’s screenplay but deferred direction to his collaborator, Howard Deutch — had a way of making even the obvious seem natural.
From Salon
In the Nature study, the researchers analyzed another phage genome with the help of a collaborator.
From Science Daily
Yet even his closest collaborators had occasional doubts about the work they were doing with McCartney during this period.
In a companion study published in Nature Cell Biology led by Professor Ulrike Kutay and collaborators at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, researchers applied the same high resolution mapping strategy to human cells.
From Science Daily
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