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Definition: Collaborate |
CollaborateVerb1. Work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group". 2. Cooperate as a traitor; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collaborate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Synonyms: CollaborateSynonyms: cooperate (v), get together (v), join forces (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Collaborate |
| Specialty definitions using "collaborate": Digital Library Initiative ♦ psychologist, clinica ♦ RESEARCH WORKER, SOCIAL WELFARE. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Writer Dorothy Parker and husband, actor/author Alan Campbell, collaborate on a dramatization of Parker's story "One Hour Late" for Paramount. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Some of these companies collaborate with foreign firms in their bidding process. (references) | |
As the market is small and highly competitive, foreign firms should choose to collaborate with firms that are already in the field, operating importing, distributing, for another auto manufacturer, who will have the facilities in place and also the extra capacity. (references) | ||
Because Japan leads the world in the production of robotics, import penetration has been generally weak. Those foreign firms that have been most successful generally offer something unique or specialized (e.g., Japan lags in controller software, sensors, and servo motors), have been in the Japanese market place for a long time, and/or found a strong Japanese partner willing to collaborate. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iran | Government interrogators sought to force the detained faculty members to sign statements acknowledging that the Open University was defunct and pledging not to collaborate with it in the future. (references) |
Economic History | Turkey | The systematic and professional treatment required for solid waste management prompted municipalities to collaborate with private industry. (references) |
Japan | Both countries also collaborate in science and technology in such areas as mapping the human genome, research on aging, and international space exploration. (references) | |
Political Economy | Uruguay | The two traditional parties, the Colorados and the Blancos, which collaborate in a coalition-style arrangement, together control over half of the seats in the legislature. (references) |
NIGERIA | While most Nigerian importers succeed in evading payment of the full tariffs, U.S. exporters who are careful to play by the rules report they are often disadvantaged and undercut by non-U.S. exporters who collaborate with Nigerian importers to avoid tariff payments, particularly on agricultural products. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Collaborate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 81.54% of the time. "Collaborate" is used about 195 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 81.54% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.95% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.51% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 195 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
collaborate | 26 |
collaborate online | 14 |
album collaborate cube did follow ice korn leader song which | 6 |
cad collaborate drawing | 3 |
collaborate with customer | 3 |
collaborate project | 3 |
collaborate launch selected system vendor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "collaborate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bashkëpunoj (co operate, connive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تعاون مع مؤسسة, تعاون مع العدو, تعاون (club up, collaboration, communion, concur, conspire, cooperate, cooperation, cope, get together, joining, participate, pull together, team up, unite, work for smth.), إشترك (debate, let in, partake, participate, share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сътруднича (co operate, contribute), съдействувам (abet, aid, co operate, concur, conduce, help up, minister, play, promote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 合作 (Collaboration, collaborative, Cooperation, Cooperative, Partnership). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spolupracovat (cooperate, work in harness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | samarbejde (collaboration, collective work, joint composition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | samenwerken (cooperate, co-operate, work together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | همدستی کردن (Cooperate, Help), تشریک مساعی (Cooperation), باهم کارکردن (Cooperate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toimia yhdessä (act in concert, co-operate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collaborer (conspire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zusammenarbeiten (act in concert, cooperate, to act in concert, to collaborate, to cooperate, work together), mitwirken (be involved, co operate, contribute, play a part, take part), mitarbeiten (cooperate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνεργώ (connive at, cooperate), συνεργάζομαι (co operate, cooperate, join forces, pull together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשתף פעול" (cooperate, get together, pull together, string along with), לעבו" במשותף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | együttmûködik (co operate), összejátszik (to enter into collusion with sy), összedolgozik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kerjasama (cooperation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collaborare (co operate, contribute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공 하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-obbraghey (collaboration, collusion, concur, co-operate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | samarbeide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollaboratecay colaborar (contribute, cooperate, co-operate, ghost, go along, help). (various references) conlucra (co operate, conspire, pull together), colabora (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, unite). (various references) сотрудничать (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, play ball). (various references) sarađivati (co operate, cooperate, pull together). (various references) colaborar (co operate). (various references) samarbeta (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, play, pull), medarbeta. (various references) สมคบกับศัตรู, ร่วมมือ (cooperate). (various references) iş birliği yapmak, el ele vermek, düşmanla birlik olmak, birlik olmak (align oneself with, aline oneself with, conspire, gang up, unionize, unite). (various references) співробітничати з ворогом, співробітничати (contribute, cooperate, pull together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collaborate": collaborated, collaborates. (additional references) | |
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"Collaborate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colaborate, collabarate, collaberate, collaborater, collabrate, colloborate, coolaborate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collaborate" (pronounced kula"berā't) |
| 4 | -b er ā' t | corroborate, liberate, reverberate. |
| 3 | -er ā' t | accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: allocator, caballero, colorable, corollate, locatable. | |
-3 letters: albacore, allocate, balloter, bootlace, bracteal, brocatel, cartable, collaret, collator. | |
-4 letters: abollae, abreact, acerola, acrobat, actable, allobar, bearcat, bloater, cabaret, collate, corolla, lacteal, lateral, locater, locator, ocellar, ratable, reallot, tollbar. | |
-5 letters: abater, abator, ablate, abolla, aboral, acetal, aortae, aortal, arable, areola, baller, ballet, ballot, boatel, boater, bolero, bolter, borate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: collaborated, collaborates. | |
+2 letters: collaborative. | |
+3 letters: collaboratives. | |
+4 letters: bacteriological, collaboratively. | |
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