COLLABORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collaborate mean? 

• COLLABORATE (verb)
  The verb COLLABORATE has 2 senses:

1. work together on a common enterprise of project

2. cooperate as a traitor

  Familiarity information: COLLABORATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLABORATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they collaborate    ... he / she / it collaborates   
Past simple: collaborated   
Past participle: collaborated   
-ing form: collaborating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work together on a common enterprise of project

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces

Context example:

We joined forces with another research group

Hypernyms (to "collaborate" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Verb group:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collaborate"):

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

go along; play along (cooperate or pretend to cooperate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

collaboration (act of working jointly)

collaborative (accomplished by collaboration)

collaborator (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cooperate as a traitor

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris

Hypernyms (to "collaborate" is one way to...):

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Verb group:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

collaboration (act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country)

collaborator (someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force)

 Context examples 

Both "awardee" institutions and collaborating "performance site" institutions must file Assurances.

(Federal Wide Assurance, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of of six collaborating laboratories at medical centers located throughout the U.S. working to identify new molecular alterations that may be useful for brain tumor diagnosis.

(Glioma Marker Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Whomever you speak to, collaborate with, or are married to, seems to have superb ideas for you, for Saturn will again be on hand to send comforting vibrations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A combined research program of the National Marrow Donor Program and the Medical College of Wisconsin that collaborates with the global scientific community to advance hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy research worldwide.

(Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, NCI Thesaurus)

The team collaborated to identify a compound, which they named metarrestin, that stopped tumor metastasis in multiple animal models.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

Credits: Based on the University of Cambridge article, "How humans and wild birds collaborate to get precious resources of honey and wax".

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In this new study, researchers from hundreds of institutions worldwide collaborated to compare the DNA of 110,000 breast cancer patients against that of some 90,000 healthy controls.

(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)

I suppose that you have no objection to my collaborating with you, Mr. Baynes?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Emphasis on multi-site, cooperative research by multi- disciplinary teams of investigators wishing to collaborate within the common theme of the genetic epidemiology of cancer.

(Interdisciplinary Studies in the Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The research was led by engineers Leyla Soleymani and Tohid Didar, who collaborated with colleagues from McMaster's Institute for Infectious Disease Research and the McMaster-based Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)