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COLLABORATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work together on a common enterprise of project

Example:

We joined forces with another research group

Synonyms:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "collaborate" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Verb group:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "collaborate"):

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

go along; play along (cooperate or pretend to cooperate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

collaboration (act of working jointly)

collaborative (accomplished by collaboration)

collaborator (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cooperate as a traitor

Example:

he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "collaborate" is one way to...):

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Verb group:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

collaboration (act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country)

collaborator (someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The content of Entrez Gene represents the result of curation and automated integration of data from NCBI's Reference Sequence project (RefSeq), from collaborating model organism databases, and from many other databases available from NCBI.

(Entrez Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers are already collaborating with a team at the National Institutes of Health in the USA to identify potential drug candidates that are capable of breaking the link between RNA and proteins which should halt viral replication.

(Scientists A Step Closer to Drug Treatment for Hepatitis B, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They also need time to collaborate with other science teams, including those with the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter, which has been in its science orbit for a little over a year without detecting any methane.

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm’s work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German dictionary, not completed until a century after their deaths.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, and collaborating academic research institutions developed a method to measure a type of gene mutation involved in the evolution of cancer.

(Researchers uncover role of repetitive DNA and protein sequences in tumor evolution, National Institutes of Health)

The next steps for the team are to dig deeper into the details of the process, perhaps narrow down even further the subset of genes necessary for nitrogen fixation, and collaborate with other plant scientists to apply the lessons learned from this study to the next level: nitrogen-fixing plants.

(Bacteria Used to Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a 2011 study, scientists from Finland's University of Turku collaborated with colleagues at Turku University Hospital, to see if small accelerometers could be used to detect the telltale tiny chest movements associated with atrial fibrillation.

(Heart-Checking App May Help Prevent Strokes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This may be someone you join as a business partner, agent, publicist, social media manager, writing partner, or another person you collaborate with one-on-one.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thanks to the work in Kenya of Hussein Isack, who electrified me as an 11-year-old when I heard him speak in Cape Town, we’ve long known that people can increase their rate of finding bees’ nests by collaborating with honeyguides, sometimes following them for over a kilometre.

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