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collaborational

collaborational adjective: synonym of collaborative.

Adjective

collaborational (comparative more collaborational, superlative most collaborational)

  1. Synonym of collaborative.
    • There are those who believe that gradual, collaborational, and evolutionary Socialism, like that of the German Social Democrats or British Labour, de Man’s following in Belgium, a fraction of the S.F.T.O. in France, and the forms of Socialism in the Scandinavian countries, will gain the ascendancy...1938, Luigi Sturzo, translated by Barbara Barclay Carter, “The Crisis of Democracy”, in Politics and Morality, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, →OCLC, page 41
    • President: So Lettrich counted on Vojtaššák to campaign during the elections for the Democratic Party? And, so, on the grounds of his intervention you succeeded in obtaining the release of Vojtaššák? / Obtulovič: Yes. He assumed that if the Democratic Party won the elections, his case of...1951, The Trial of the Treasonable Slovak Bishops, Jàn Vojtaššák, Michal Buzalka, Pavol Gojdič, Prague: Orbis, →OCLC, page 153
    Synonyms:
    collaborative

Examples of collaborational in a sentence

  • He assumed that if the Democratic Party won the elections, his case of collaborational activity would be definitely dropped and obliterated.1951, The Trial of the Treasonable Slovak Bishops, Jàn Vojtaššák, Michal Buzalka, Pavol Gojdič, Prague: Orbis, →OCLC, page 153:
  • There wasn’t enough meat in what he had told her to warrant so much as the purchase of her customary collaborational notebook.1957, Helen Howe, The Success of Margot Masters, London: Macdonald, →OCLC, page 275:

Synonyms of collaborational

Forms of collaborational

comparativemore collaborational
superlativemost collaborational

Origin of collaborational

From collaboration + -al.

Questions about collaborational

What does collaborational mean?
Collaborational means synonym of collaborative.
How do you use collaborational in a sentence?
He assumed that if the Democratic Party won the elections, his case of collaborational activity would be definitely dropped and obliterated.
What part of speech is collaborational?
Collaborational is an adjective.

Words near collaborational in the dictionary

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

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