collaborate, v.
(kəˈlæbəreɪt)
[f. mod.F. collaborer, or its original, L. collabōrā-re (f. col- together + labōrāre to work, labour): see -ate.]
1. intr. To work in conjunction with another or others, to co-operate; esp. in a literary or artistic production, or the like.
| 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. XLII. 850 Composers who collaborated with Metastasio in the opera of the eighteenth century. |
2. spec. To co-operate traitorously with the enemy.
| 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. |
Hence collaborating ppl. a., etc.
| 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. I. 269 The ingenious work of the collaborating authors. |