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/kəlˌæbərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Collaboration n.

The act of working together; united labor.

The act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collaboration" Quotes from Famous Books

... opinions. In short, she produced two books which were a success. More than once she saved Lousteau's self-esteem by dictating, correcting, or finishing his articles when he was in despair at his own lack of ideas. The secret of this collaboration was strictly preserved; Madame ...

— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac

... school, if they gave me less tedium, were all the more acute. My Latin scholar was a lad who meant to profit by his opportunities and devoted himself to his studies, and, naturally, had a most cordial collaboration on my part, while the son of the rival citizen was both lazy and refractory, so that, with my system of inflicting no corporal punishments, he got none of the weekly prizes, and got such milder punishments as could be inflicted. To tell the truth, the pupils who were refractory to my system were ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James

... passion until he has aroused passion in the hearer—oratory is a collaboration. The orator is the active ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... The collaboration in the faces of his friends seemed to put an instant end to his effort and, as if an unspoken command were given, they all sat down and made a prompt finish to ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... now overloaded with work. I have two huge novels on hand - THE WRECKER and the PEARL FISHER, in collaboration with my stepson: the latter, the PEARL FISHER, I think highly of, for a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. And then I am about waist-deep in my big book on the South Seas: THE big book on the South Seas it ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

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