# ghostwriter

Pronunciation: US say "GOHST-ry-ter" /ˈɡoʊstˌɹaɪtɚ/; UK say "GOHST-ry-tuh" /ˈɡəʊstˌɹaɪtə/

## Noun

1. A professional writer paid to produce material that is officially credited to someone else, often a celebrity.
   - Simple: A person paid to write books, speeches, or articles that someone else takes credit for.
   - _The politician's bestselling autobiography was actually written by a ghostwriter._
   - _She worked for years as a ghostwriter before publishing novels under her own name._

## Origin

Formed from "ghost" plus "writer."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ghostwriter (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).