collaboration

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Etymology

Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, [kʰəˌlæbəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən]

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

collaboration (countable and uncountable, plural collaborations)

1. (uncountable) The act of collaborating.

   Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.

   During the interwar period, fascists proposed class collaboration as a response to communist class struggle.

2. (countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.

   Alternative form: collab

   The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.

3. (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.

   He has been charged with collaboration.

Hyponyms

• adversarial collaboration
• social collaboration
• telecollaboration

Derived terms

• adversarial collaboration
• anticollaboration
• collab
• collaborational
• collaborationism
• collaborationist
• noncollaboration
• social collaboration
• telecollaboration

Related terms

• collaborate
• collaborator
• collaborative
• collaboratively

Translations

act of collaborating

Afrikaans: samewerking Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m Armenian: գործակցություն (hy) (gorcakcʻutʻyun), համագործակցություն (hy) (hamagorcakcʻutʻyun) Azerbaijani: əməkdaşlıq (az) Belarusian: супрацо́ўніцтва n (supracóŭnictva) Breton: kenlabour m Bulgarian: сътру́дничество (bg) n (sǎtrúdničestvo) Catalan: col·laboració (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 / 协作 (zh) (xiézuò) Czech: spolupráce (cs) f Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f, het samenwerken (nl) Esperanto: kunlaboraĵo, kunlaborado, kunlaboro Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), myötävaikuttaminen, myötävaikutus, kollaboraatio French: collaboration (fr) f Galician: colaboración (gl) f German: Kollektivarbeit f, Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kollaboration (de) f Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía) Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה m (shituf pe'ula) Hungarian: együttműködés (hu) Indonesian: kerja sama (id), kolaborasi (id) Italian: collaborazione (it) f Japanese: コラボレーション (ja) (koraborēshon), コラボ (ja) (korabo), 協調 (ja) (きょうちょう,kyōchō), 協力 (ja) (きょうりょく, kyōryoku), 共働 (ja) (きょうどう, kyōdō), 合作 (ja) (がっさく, gassaku) Khmer: សហការ (saʼhaʼkaa) Korean: 협업 (ko) (hyeobeop), 협력 (ko) (hyeomnyeok) Lao: please add this translation if you can Malay: kerjasama Norwegian: samarbeid (no) Occitan: collaboracion (oc) f Old English: efnwyrċing f Polish: współpraca (pl) f Portuguese: colaboração (pt) f Romanian: colaborare (ro) f, colaborări f pl Russian: сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (ru) f (kooperácija), совме́стная рабо́та f (sovméstnaja rabóta) Spanish: colaboración (es) f Swahili: kolabo (sw) Swedish: samarbete (sv) n Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: imece (tr), iş birliği (tr), emektaşlık (tr) Ukrainian: співробі́тництво (uk) n (spivrobítnyctvo), співпра́ця (uk) f (spivprácja)

joint production or creation

Chinese: Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 / 协作 (zh) (xiézuò) Finnish: yhteistuotanto Galician: colaboración (gl) f Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía) Italian: collaborazione (it) Japanese: コラボレーション (ja) (koraborēshon), コラボ (ja) (korabo), 合作 (ja) (gassaku), 共作 (kyōsaku) Lao: please add this translation if you can Maori: ngātahitanga Russian: совме́стная рабо́та f (sovméstnaja rabóta), сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo) Swahili: kolabo (sw) Thai: please add this translation if you can

treasonous cooperation

Armenian: կոլլաբորացիոնիզմ (hy) (kollaboracʻionizm) Azerbaijani: kollaborasionizm Belarusian: (зрадніцкае) супрацо́ўніцтва n (supracóŭnictva); калабарацыяні́зм m (kalabaracyjanízm) Chinese: Mandarin: 勾結 / 勾结 (zh) (gōujié), 通敵 / 通敌 (zh) (tōngdí) Czech: kolaborace (cs) f Danish: kollaboration c Dutch: collaboratie (nl) f Finnish: yhteistoiminta (fi), yhteistyö (fi) (vihollisen kanssa - with the enemy) French: collaboration (fr) f German: Kollaboration (de) f, Zusammenarbeit (de) f Hungarian: kollaborálás Japanese: 裏切り (ja) (うらぎり, uragiri) (treason), 利敵協力 (りてききょうりょく, riteki kyōryoku) Malay: persekongkolan, ڤرسکوڠکولن (persekungkulan), persubahatan, kolaborasi Polish: kolaboracja (pl) f Portuguese: conspiração (pt) f, formação de quadrilha f Russian: (предательское) сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коллаборациони́зм (ru) m (kollaboracionízm) Swedish: kollaboration c Ukrainian: (зрадницька) співпра́ця (uk) f (spivprácja); колабораціоні́зм (uk) m (kolaboracionízm), колабора́ція f (kolaborácija), колабора́нтство n (kolaborántstvo)

References

• “collaboration”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “collaboration”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "collaboration" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

French

Etymology

From collaborer +‎ -tion, from Late Latin collaboratio, from Latin com- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
• Homophone: collaborations
• Hyphenation: co‧lla‧bo‧ra‧tion

Noun

collaboration f (plural collaborations)

1. collaboration

Further reading

• “collaboration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.