Collaborate

Definition: Collaborate

Collaborate

Verb

1. 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: Collaborate

Crosswords: Collaborate

Books

• A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement (reference)

• Collaborate Celebrate (2nd Grade/Math, Social Studies Science, Language Arts) (reference)

• Collaborate with Your Competitors - and Win [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Collaborate! Celebrate!-Social Studies and Science (reference)

• Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Collaborate (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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.

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

Portuguese

colaborar (contribute, cooperate, co-operate, ghost, go along, help). (various references)

Romanian

conlucra (co operate, conspire, pull together), colabora (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, unite). (various references)

Russian 

сотрудничать (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, play ball). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sarađivati (co operate, cooperate, pull together). (various references)

Spanish

colaborar (co operate). (various references)

Swedish

samarbeta (co operate, cooperate, co-operate, play, pull), medarbeta. (various references)

Thai

สมคบกับศัตรู, ร่วมมือ (cooperate). (various references)

Turkish

iş birliği yapmak, el ele vermek, düşmanla birlik olmak, birlik olmak (align oneself with, aline oneself with, conspire, gang up, unionize, unite). (various references)

Ukrainian

співробітничати з ворогом, співробітничати (contribute, cooperate, pull together). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "collaborate": collaborated, collaborates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Collaborate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colaborate, collabarate, collaberate, collaborater, collabrate, colloborate, coolaborate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

+1 letter: collaborated, collaborates.

+2 letters: collaborative.

+3 letters: collaboratives.

+4 letters: bacteriological, collaboratively.