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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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Word History and Origins

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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Cyrus, Malone and Dolly Parton are are among the collaborators that fans are hoping to see on stage.

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“Sinners,” written and directed by Coogler, features longtime collaborator and “Creed” star Michael B. Jordan as a pair of twins returning to their Mississippi hometown, where supernatural evils wait in the night.

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I’m a serial collaborator — the work never stops.

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Series choreographer Marguerite Derricks, a longtime collaborator with Sherman-Palladino, has taught both performers the sequence.

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While Gaga herself has a pivotal hand in translating that passion, a show of this magnitude isn’t possible without a small army of collaborators.

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