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Definition: Collaborator |
CollaboratorNoun1. Someone who assists in a plot. 2. Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force. 3. An associate who works with others toward a common goal; "partners in crime". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collaborator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Etymology: Collaborator \Col*lab"o*ra`tor\, noun. [Latin expression collaborare to labor together; col- laborare to labor: compare to the French expression collaborateur.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CollaboratorSynonyms: collaborationist (n), confederate (n), cooperator (n), henchman (n), pardner (n), partner (n), partner in crime (n), quisling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Collaborator |
| English words defined with "collaborator": Collaborateur ♦ gilbert ♦ Sir William Gilbert ♦ William Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "collaborator": FLY ♦ serial. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Collaborator (1912) | |
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 | Figure 6. De Guerne bucket biologic sample recovery unit devised by Baron Jules De Guerne about 1893. a collaborator with Prince Albert I of Monaco. Use of this instrument depended on which type of net was used and how long the tow. It is almost certain that this instrument existed in this form by 1893. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 40. Fol bathometer, designed by Hermann Fol who was a collaborator with Prince Albert I of Monaco. This instrument used the same principle as the Erics son sounder. Fol replaced water with mercury in order to determine the depth attained as a function of the quantity of liquid displaced by the pressure. Details concerning tests and effectiveness of this device are unknown. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 20. Dumaige thermometer constructed by Paul Dumaige who was a long-time collaborator with the Prince of Monaco. Duimage was known for having constructe d the closing mechanism for a plankton net used by Albert I. It is not known whether this instrument was a copy of an existing instruments or if it was made to improve certain shortcomings. Two of them were used in 1892 at 4808 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 17. Model of the HIRONDELLE's winch. From the beginnings of Prince Albert I of Monaco's oceanographic explorations, he became occupied with equipping his vessels with basic indispensable deck equipment and tools includin g winches, reels of cable, etc. He gave the engineer Jules LeBlanc responsibili ty for this but became a principle collaborator in this area. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Economic History | India | For use of trademarks and brand names of a foreign collaborator without technology transfer, royalty payments up to 2 percent on exports and one percent on domestic sales are allowed automatically. (references) |
Argentina | In recognition of its contributions to international security and peacekeeping, the U.S. Government designated Argentina as a major non-NATO ally in January 1998. Argentina has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Summit of the Americas process, and currently chairs the Free Trade of the Americas initiative leading to the Buenos Aires Ministerial in April 2001. At the UN, Argentina is a close U.S. collaborator, supporting the U.S. campaign to improve human rights in Cuba and the fight against international terrorism and narcotics trafficking. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read them. A synposis of the entire work would be still better. The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | In all legislative affairs it is the natural collaborator with the President. |
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| "Collaborator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Collaborator" is used about 91 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 91 | 34,491 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "collaborator": ex-collaborator. | |
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| 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 |
collaborator engels | 37 |
collaborator | 20 |
collaborator trade | 9 |
collaborator marx | 5 |
collaborator engles | 3 |
collaborator find songwriting | 3 |
collaborator forecast | 3 |
careless collaborator | 3 |
collaborator naked war | 2 |
collaborator eisenstein movie | 2 |
collaborator french maurice | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "collaborator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bashkëpunëtor (fellow worker, partner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعاون (collaborative, concurrent, cooperating, cooperative, cooperator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сътрудник (adjunct, associate, contributor, contributory, co-operator, copartner), колаборационист, предател на родината (collaborationist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 合作者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spolupracovník (associate, coadjutor, contributor, cooperator, co-worker), kolaborant (collaborationist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | työtoveri (co-worker, fellow worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collaborateur (contributor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kollaborator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνεργάτησ (contributor, cooperator, fellow worker), συνεργαζόμενοσ (cooperative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משתף פעול" (concurrent, cooperator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kollaboráns (collaborationist), munkatárs (associate, cobber, colleague, contributor, co-worker, fellow worker, joint labourer, team mate, yoke fellow, yoke-fellow, yokemate), közreműködő (contributor, contributory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collaboratore (assistant, associate, contributor, coworker, employee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 共著者 (coauthor, joint author), コミュニケーション科学基礎 "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうちょしゃ (coauthor, joint author), コラボレーター . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 합작자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fer coonee (adjutant, aider, ally, auxiliary, confederate, helper, relief), co-obbree (colleague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollaboratorcay colaborador (contributor, co-operator, helpmate, helpmeet). (various references) colaborator (assistant, contributor, cooperator, co-operator, co-worker, helpmate). (various references) сотрудник (cooperator, co-operator, fellow worker, staff members, work-mate). (various references) saučesnik (abettor, accessary, accessory, accomplice, actor), saradnik (contributor, co-worker, fellow worker). (various references) colaborador (assistant, associate, campaign worker, employee, helper). (various references) medlöpare (co-runners), medarbetare (contributor). (various references) ortak (agreed, associate, collective, common, conjunct, consociate, cooperator, copartner, dormant partner, fellow, identic, joint, mate, mutual, pard, partner, party, privy, shareholder, sidekick, sympathetic), işbirlikçi (collaborationist, partner), iş arkadaşı (colleague, cooperator, co-worker, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references) співробітник (colleague, contributor, cooperator, workmate), колабораціоніст (collaborationist). (various references) cộng tác viên, người cộng tác (co-operator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collaborator": collaborators. (additional references) | |
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"Collaborator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callaborator, collaborater, collabrator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collaborator" (pronounced kula"berā'ter) |
| 5 | -b er ā' t er | carburetor. |
| 4 | -er ā' t er | accelerator, cogenerator, decorator, evaporator, generator, incinerator, Moderator, operator, refrigerator, respirator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, regulator, renovator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-l-o-o-o-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: allocator. | |
-4 letters: collator. | |
-5 letters: acrobat, allobar, carbora, corolla, locator, tollbar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-l-l-o-o-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: collaborators. | |
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