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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collaborate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The group also collaborate in offering food to the young still in the nest.
▪ Elephants also collaborate in looking after their young.
▪ He also collaborates as a duo with concert pianist Joanna MacGregor.
▪ Over half are also collaborating on consumer research service specifications and service planning.
■ NOUN
project
▪ One solution to this problem is for two or more classes to collaborate on a project.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Educators and employers need to collaborate in preparing the next generation for employment and adulthood.
▪ Fellini collaborated with Rossellini on the script of the film.
▪ He was imprisoned in 1945 for collaborating with the enemy.
▪ Hewlett Packard collaborated with Nokia to produce the palmtop-telephone.
▪ Researchers in Stanford and Princeton collaborated to manufacture a completely new waterproof textile.
▪ Those suspected of collaborating during the occupation were tried and shot
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At issue is a coffee table book chronicling 24-hours in cyberspace on which Smolan and the Media Lab were to collaborate.
▪ Children have choices in literary activities; they collaborate in pairs, in small groups, and with their teachers.
▪ How can employees and their managers collaborate to soften the inevitable collisions between work and those other roles?
▪ In other words the members would also begin to collaborate on foreign policy matters.
▪ Second, there is the inclination of followers in some circumstances to collaborate in their own deception.
▪ The importance of collaborating with the patient's general practitioner is emphasized.
▪ They're referring, of course, to his brother Edgar, with whom he has collaborated often in the past.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
collaborate

collaborate \col*lab"o*rate\, v. i.

  1. to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book.

  2. to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [PJC] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collaborate

1871, back-formation from collaborator. Given a bad sense in World War II. Related: Collaborated; collaborating.

Wiktionary
collaborate

vb. 1 To work together with others to achieve a common goal. 2 To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

WordNet
collaborate
  1. v. 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" [syn: join forces, cooperate, get together]

  2. cooperate as a traitor; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris"

Wikipedia
Collaborate
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Usage examples of "collaborate".

When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.

Rebiere travelled to California in the United States of America to inspect a similar system last year, and is collaborating closely with Herr Geissler on the construction.

This was interesting: If this kid was working with the others, then he was likely NLR, a Nazi Lowrider, a newer prison and street gang, an enforcement arm of the Aryan Brotherhood that collaborated sometimes, secretly, with Chicano gangs.

Oscar Nauman had agreed when Jacob suggested they invite the DiPietro and Germondi galleries to join with Kohn and Munson since they were located side by side up on the seventh floor and occasionally collaborated on exhibits.

The Brits and the Germans collaborate on mining, give the Nauruans nothing but flu and polio.

He was, by a polite fiction, called the Duc de Morny, and he once collaborated with that Jew Offenbach in composing an operetta for a court ball, and making it very offensive.

He would remain my local oncologist, and I would see him for countless more blood tests and checkups, but thanks to his generous spirit and willingness to collaborate with others in my treatment, he also became my friend.

Rup-Tooey that afternoon just as Herb was saying good-bye to navigator Mort Alexander and roboticist Guy Atari, who were collaborating on a book and had sought his professional counsel.

Paul arrived at Rup-Tooey that afternoon just as Herb was saying good-bye to navigator Mort Alexander and roboticist Guy Atari, who were collaborating on a book and had sought his professional counsel.

In any case, as you must have been informed, he left the kibbutz in the company of Zif, and the pair of them have been collaborating on the monument.

Those councilors who had collaborated were allowed to retain their position.

Web Critics, who work today mainly for the printed press, publish their wares on the net and collaborate with intelligent software which hyperlinks to web sites, recommends them and refers users to them.

Or, he could rid himself of Baden on the plain, justify it as self-defense, and accuse the dead Owl-Master of collaborating with the traitor Orris.

Edgar Rice Burroughs felt uncomfortable writing to the strict formula of this series, and so he asked his son John Coleman Burroughs, who was also the illustrator of the book, to collaborate with him in producing the story.

It declares itself willing to collaborate with any other party whose aims are sufficiently similar.