collaborate

From collaborator, from French collaborateur, from Latin collaborare. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlabəɹeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: col‧lab‧or‧ate

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

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.

• collaborator
• collaboration

• “collaborate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “collaborate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "collaborate" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "collaborate" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

collaborate

1. inflection of collaborare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

collaborate f pl

1. feminine plural of collaborato

collabōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collabōrō