COLLABORATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collaborator mean? 

• COLLABORATOR (noun)
  The noun COLLABORATOR has 3 senses:

1. someone who assists in a plot

2. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force

3. an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest

  Familiarity information: COLLABORATOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLABORATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who assists in a plot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

collaborator; confederate; henchman; partner in crime

Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):

accessary; accessory (someone who helps another person commit a crime)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

collaborationist; collaborator; quisling

Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):

traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

Derivation:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

collaborator; cooperator; pardner; partner

Context example:

sexual partners

Hypernyms ("collaborator" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collaborator"):

bridge partner (one of a pair of bridge players who are on the same side of the game)

dancing partner (one of a pair of people who dance together)

Derivation:

collaborate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

 Context examples 

This person may be your spouse or someone you are dating seriously, or this person could be a business partner or committed collaborator.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Based on finding two cores in the galaxy, instead of one, Taylor and his collaborators concluded in 2006 that it contained a pair of supermassive black holes.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dundas and collaborators used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO to examine gullies at 356 sites on Mars, beginning in 2006.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

Sheridan Ackiss of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and collaborators used the orbiter's mineral-mapping spectrometer to investigate surface composition in an oddly textured region of southern Mars called Sisyphi Montes.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

We’d love to know whether honeyguides have learnt this language-like variation in human signals across Africa, allowing them to recognise good collaborators among the local people living alongside them.

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

Collaborators administered a lethal dose of Zaire ebolavirus to 4 rhesus macaques, then treated 3 of the animals, beginning a day later, with a mixture of the mAbs for 3 consecutive days.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

To counter this limitation, Prof. LIU and collaborators surveyed the sky with China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), looking for stars that orbit an invisible object, pulled by its gravity.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

National Institutes of Health scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of nearly two dozen people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

(NIH scientists and collaborators find infectious prion protein in skin of CJD patients, National Institutes of Health)

For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

Dr. Kilduff’s lab and that of his collaborator, Akihiro Yamanaka, Ph.D., at Nagoya University in Japan, have spent years examining the role of a hormone called hypocretin/orexin in controlling sleep and narcolepsy.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)