collaboration
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9.0
- noun
- /kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən/
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colaboración con el enemigo
- Yet, crucially, there were minorities who entered into active collaboration with the Germans or into resistance against them.
- collaboration with the Nazis
- wartime collaboration
- close collaboration
Examples
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Senator Travis, the main opposition figure groups against the peace initiative, was arrested for collaboration with "patriotic group.
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The fact is, what we're doing could be construed as... forgive me, sir, collaboration with the enemy.
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I assume you demand the safety of this woman in return for your collaboration.
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LINDA :We have received evidence of such collaboration.
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I submit that this witness was convicted for collaboration with an enemy nation... ...and is here under armed custody.
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"This is to inform you that any further collaboration "with the forces of occupation will be punishable by death.
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Thousands of Arabs were made to pay for a minority's collaboration with the Iraqi invaders.
Academic text (1995) -
Lentz was sentenced to three years in prison for his collaboration with the Nazis (Fein 1979, 266-267).
Academic text (2003) -
The government condemned the citizens' collaboration with the enemy forces during the invasion.
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She faced severe penalties for her collaboration with the occupying soldiers in her town.
Synonyms
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2.5
Working together with other people to reach a common goal
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8.4
Secret deal by people or companies to cheat others
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A crime of betraying your country by helping an enemy or trying to remove the government by force
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8.4
Taking part with others in a crime
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9.9
Secret help that allows someone to do something illegal
Helping an enemy who controls your country while betraying your people
Helping an enemy who occupies your country and betraying your people
The act of betraying your country or people by helping their enemies
Being disloyal to your country, friends, or cause
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A way for people with different views to work together to test ideas or solve disagreements
How Traitorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
collaboration = collaborate (semi-transparent) = col + labor + ation
While the form is transparently built from 'collaborate', the specialized sense of cooperating with an occupying enemy (a legal/moral judgment of treason) is a narrower, negatively evaluative meaning not fully predictable from neutral 'work together'.
Etymology
Collaboration comes from the parts col- meaning 'with' and labor meaning 'work'. In wartime it meant 'working with' the enemy, so collaboration can also mean helping the occupiers and being seen as a traitor.