collaborate
verbattested in dialogue
- //kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt//
- //kəˈlæb.ɹeɪt//
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
verb
- 1
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.
Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate.
- 2
To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
Etymology
Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Forms
- past tense
- collaborated
- past participle
- collaborated
- present participle
- collaborating
- third person singular
- collaborates
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