collaborate
collaborate
Definition
col·labo·rate (kə lab′ə rāt′)
intransitive verb -·rat′ed, -·rat′·ing
- to work together, esp. in some literary, artistic, or scientific undertaking
- to cooperate with an enemy invader
Etymology: < LL(Ec) collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together < L com-, with + laborare, to work: see labor
col·lab′o·ra′·tion noun
col·lab′o·ra′·tive (-rāt′iv, -rə tiv) adjective
col·lab′o·ra′·tor noun
collaborate
Synonyms
collaborate
Usage Examples
Object
- institutes: The research project may be undertaken in Birmingham or in one of a number of collaborating research institutes throughout the UK.
- institution: The collaborating institutions collectively provide the majority of secondary ITT places across the North West Region.
- laboratory: From a capacity-building perspective, ELISA kits were sent to collaborating laboratories in Ethiopia, Ghana, and The Gambia.
- partner: Collaborating partners met in Birmingham in June 2004 for the first international steering group meeting.
- scientist: Projects may take place within the School or with collaborating scientists in other colleges or institutes in the UK.
- center: NICE ensures the collaborating center follows a strict protocol in the development of the guideline.
Preposition: on
- project: She has also collaborated on three projects with the British Council in Brazil.
Modifying Another Word
- closely: The Center collaborates closely with the Center for Adaptive Systems.
- extensively: The researchers, who collaborated extensively in their work, report their findings in companion articles in the April 2004 issue of Diabetes.
- effectively: They had been looking at ways of collaborating more effectively.
- actively: The Nigerian section of the CWI actively collaborated with the ruling class in forming the National conscience party - a radical bourgois party.
- internationally: Researchers collaborate internationally, far more cheaply and quickly than they ever could before.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- on: Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly, however, on the 38 plays that he apparently wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Infinitive complement
- produce: The organizations involved are collaborating to produce a reference library of DNA information for all terrestrial mammals.
Preposition: with
- countries/sais: The SAI can consult and /or collaborate with other countries/SAIs and international organizations on matters relating to audit.
- colleague: We enjoy collaborating with colleagues to push forward the research in this field.
- choreographer: In exploring these ideas, designers collaborated with choreographers, directors and performers.
- musician: I collaborate with musicians or people I know around me or some who contacted me on the web, like Patricia Dallio.
- artist: They collaborate with artists exploring how the changes in nature's time affects our response to the landscape.
- researcher: Occasionally we collaborate with researchers who are able to make a contribution to our costs.
Browse dictionary entries near collaborate
- collaborationist
- collaborative computing
- collaborator
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- collagen
- collapse
- collar
- collarbone
- collard
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