collaborationist
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9.9
- noun
- /kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃənɪst/
:
colaboracionista
- After the war ended, several collaborationists were put on trial for their cooperation with the enemy forces.
- collaborationist government
- collaborationist regime
- collaborationist leader
Examples
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Most ministers of the collaborationist government of Vichy were socialists before the war.
Blog text (8) -
Collaborationist leader Walapai Charley refused to participate in the millenarian movement.
Academic text (1998) -
The local collaborationist power structure.
Fiction book (1996) -
And there are those now who appear to want to understand this as a way of saying that the author of over a hundred collaborationist articles did not exist.
Academic text (1990) -
But he also produced writings that were at best opportunistic and strategic, and at worst collaborationist with Nazi art policies.
Academic text (2013) -
Participants are merely collaborationists, lackeys of the government who are bought off by government prestige and money.
Academic text (1990) -
At the 1943 ANC Conference, the new ANC constitution was attacked as "collaborationist" because of its professed non-racialism.
Academic text (1990) -
Should they obey Pétain, the official representative of France and his collaborationist government, or should they follow De Gaulle, the general defector, who governed from England what was called Free France?
Fiction book (1997) -
As the colonial era began winding down, pro-independence forces in both Niger and Nigeria criticized the chieftaincy for its accommodationist, if not collaborationist, policy toward the European overlords.
Academic text (1993) -
In Hitler's Silent Partners (1997), author Isabel Vincent claimed Evita met with Ante Pavelic, the leader of the collaborationist Croatian Ustashe regime.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who helps an enemy that occupies their country during a war
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9.9
A person who helps an enemy that controls their country
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9.9
A person who secretly helps an enemy inside their country
A person who betrays their country by giving secrets to enemies
Antonyms
How Traitorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
collaborationist = collaboration (transparent) = collaboration + ist
Formed by a straightforward derivation of 'collaboration' + the agentive suffix '-ist', so meaning is directly inferable.
Etymology
The word collaborationist comes from co- 'with' and labor 'work', the same root you see in collaborate and labor. So a collaborationist is literally someone who 'works with' an enemy, and the word is used for people who willingly help an occupying force in wartime.