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ghost-write

ghost-write is the alternative form of ghostwrite.

Meaning of ghostwrite

Verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

  1. (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
    • Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
  2. (transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
    • The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

Forms of ghost-write

third-person singular presentghost-writes
present participleghost-writing
pastghost-wrote
past participleghost-written

Questions about ghost-write

What is ghost-write the alternative form of?
Ghost-write is the alternative form of ghostwrite.

Words near ghost-write in the dictionary

  1. ghost-ride
  2. ghost-rides
  3. ghost-riding
  4. ghost-rode
  5. ghost-townish
  6. ghost-write
  7. ghost-writes
  8. ghost-writing
  9. ghost-written
  10. ghost-wrote
  11. ghostball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost-write (page history and authors); ghostwrite (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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