collaboration
Pluralcollaborations (some meanings)
- 1The act of working together with one or more people to produce or achieve something.
The exhibit came about through collaboration between the museum and several local artists.
Successful disaster relief depends on collaboration among many agencies.
Similarcooperation, teamwork, partnership, coordination
Oppositecompetition, rivalry
- 2A work or product created by two or more people working together.
The album is a collaboration between the composer and a jazz quartet.
Several collaborations between the two studios have won awards.
- 3Cooperation with an enemy occupying one's country, treated as an act of treason.
After liberation, courts tried hundreds of citizens for collaboration with the occupying regime.
His wartime collaboration with the enemy left a permanent stain on the family name.
Similarcollusion, fraternization, treason
Oppositeresistance
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Origin
This word entered English around 1855-60 from French collaboration, which traces back through Late Latin collaboratus to the Latin con- ("with") and labōrō ("work"). It can also be seen as collaborate plus the suffix -ion.