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collaborate Definition

col·labo·rate (kə labə rāt′)

intransitive verb -·rat′ed, -·rat′·ing

  1. to work together, esp. in some literary, artistic, or scientific undertaking
  2. to cooperate with an enemy invader

Etymology: < LL(Ec) collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together < L com-, with + laborare, to work: see labor

collaborate Related Forms
col·lab′o·ra·tion noun col·labo·ra′·tive (-rāt′iv, -rə tiv) adjective col·labo·ra′·tor noun
collaborate Synonyms

collaborate

v.

work together, collude, team up; see cooperate 1, help 1.

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.

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