COLLABORATOR Definition & Meaning

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collaborator

[ kuh-lab-uh-rey-ter ]

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noun

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.
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.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of collaborator¹

First recorded in 1800–10; from French collaborateur, equivalent to Late Latin ��Ǳ��ō��(�ܲ�) (past participle of ��Ǳ��ō�� ) + -or ²( def ); collaborate ( def )

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Three years later, Mina and his collaborators took blood samples from 77 unvaccinated children in a community in the Netherlands before and then two to six months after the children contracted measles.

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Perhaps it was either of those versions that any one of Kilmer’s collaborators met on a given day and why his colleagues all had something entirely different to say about him.

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He says he not only loved his character, but his collaborators too.

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The president was not part of this group, but Trump's closest collaborators were.

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