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ghostwrite

ghostwrite \ghost"write`\, ghost-write \ghost"-write`\v. t. To write (a book, article, speech, etc.) for someone else; -- the written material appears under the name of the person for whom it was written.

Syn: ghost.

Wiktionary
ghostwrite

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). 2 (context transitive English) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.

WordNet
ghostwrite
  1. v. write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [syn: ghost]

  2. [also: ghostwrote, ghostwritten]

Usage examples of "ghostwrite".

I'll bet a new past is being ghostwritten for "Castaway Cay"—a past richly populated with conquistadors or perhaps shipwrecked pirates, whom Disney copywriters would regard as more colorful and less menacing than modern smugglers of cocaine and bootleg methaqualone.

At Emory University, he ghostwrote a doctor's memoirs, and within the next two years, had married his high school sweetheart, Connie, become a father, and moved to Gainesville to major in journalism at the University of Florida.