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GHOSTWRITE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: ghostwritten    , ghostwrote   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write for someone else

Example:

How many books have you ghostwritten so far?

Synonyms:

ghost; ghostwrite

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

author (be the author of)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he ghostwrite his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

ghostwriter (a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else)

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