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collaboration

nounattested in dialogue

  • Canada//kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən//
  • Canada/[kʰəˌlæbəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən]/
  • Australia//kəˌlæbəˈɹæɪʃən//
  • Australia/[kʰəˌlæbəˈɹæɪ̯ʃən]/

The act of collaborating.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of collaborating.

    Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.

    During the interwar period, fascists proposed class collaboration as a response to communist class struggle.

  2. 2

    A production or creation made by collaborating.

    The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.

    With the recent announcement of a Cinematic Universe being created as a collaboration between Henry Cavill (Oh God Emperor of the Nerds that he is) and a small production company called Amazon, plus the general increase in hobbying over the past few years, it’s never been so popular.

  3. 3

    Treasonous cooperation.

    He has been charged with collaboration.

Etymology

Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate + -ion.

Forms

plural
collaborations
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).