collaborating
- 1Present participle and gerund of collaborate.
Research teams from three universities are collaborating on the climate study.
Collaborating closely over several months, the writers finished the screenplay early.
Note
The -ing form does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (they are collaborating), and on its own it acts as a noun-like gerund (collaborating takes patience). It carries both meanings of collaborate, so context decides which one is meant: the everyday sense of working with others toward a shared goal, or the darker one of willingly cooperating with an enemy occupying one's country.
collaborating is a form of collaborate
collaborate, verb: To work jointly with others in pursuit of a common goal. Full entry
- Forms
- collaboratecollaborates he/she/itcollaborating -ing formcollaborated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- collaborate → collaborating: drop the e, add -ing
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