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collaborating

collaborating is the present participle and gerund of collaborate.

Meaning of collaborate

Verb

collaborate (third-person singular simple present collaborates, present participle collaborating, simple past and past participle collaborated)

  1. To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
    • Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.
  2. To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
    • If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.

Questions about collaborating

What is collaborating the present participle and gerund of?
Collaborating is the present participle and gerund of collaborate.

Words near collaborating in the dictionary

  1. collaborated
  2. collaboratedly
  3. collaborates
  4. collaborateur
  5. collaborateurs
  6. collaborating
  7. collaboration
  8. collaborational
  9. collaborationism
  10. collaborationisms
  11. collaborationist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collaborating (page history and authors); collaborate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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