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collaboration

/kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/

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Australia/kəˌlæbəˈɹæɪʃən/

collaboration noun: the act of collaborating.

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.
    • The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
    • With the recent announcement of a Cinematic Universe being created as a collaboration between Henry Cavill (Oh God Emperor of the Nerds that he is) and a small production company called Amazon, plus the general increase in hobbying over the past few years, it’s never been so popular.2023 February 8, chilcottharry, “So you want to start reading Warhammer 40,000? Here’s where to start!”, in FanFiAddict, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2025
  3. (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.
    • He has been charged with collaboration.

collaboration meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

collaboration in Tamil

இணைவாக்கம், உடனிணைவு, உடனுழைப்பு, கூட்டு முயற்சி

collaboration in Marathi

सहयोग

collaboration in Urdu

collaboration, participation, co-operation, affiliation
اشتراک iśtirāk

collaboration in Bengali

সাহায্য
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collaboration in Malayalam
സഹപ്രവർത്തനം, സഹകരണം, യോജിച്ച പ്രവർത്തനം, കൂട്ടുപ്രവർത്തനം
collaboration in Kannada
ಸಹಭಾಗಿತ್ವ, ಸಹೋದ್ಯಮ, ಸಹಕಾರ, ಸಹಯೋಗ
collaboration in Punjabi
ਸਹਿਯੋਗ
collaboration in Gujarati
સહયોગ
collaboration in Odia
ସହଯୋଗ
collaboration in Malay
kerjasama, persekongkolan, persubahatan, kolaborasi
collaboration in Indonesian
kerja sama, kolaborasi

Examples of collaboration in a sentence

  • Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
  • The noded philosophy is also about flexibility and efficiency in collaboration, especially among people who are geographically far apart.
  • It took an international collaboration to begin cracking Tears of the Kingdom open.

All 40 example sentences with collaboration

Forms of collaboration

pluralcollaborations

Plural of collaboration: collaborations

Origin of collaboration

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

Words formed from collaboration

Words that rhyme with collaboration

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Questions about collaboration

What does collaboration mean?
Collaboration means the act of collaborating.
What is collaboration in Tamil?
Collaboration in Tamil is இணைவாக்கம், உடனிணைவு, உடனுழைப்பு. See Collaboration meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collaboration?
Collaboration is a noun.
How do you pronounce collaboration?
Collaboration is pronounced /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of collaboration?
The plural of collaboration is collaborations.

Words near collaboration in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: collaboration (page history and authors); collaboration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collaboration (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اشتراک (Urdu) (page history and authors); collaboration (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collaboration (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collaboration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collaboration (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collaboration (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collaboration (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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