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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 voting
  2. ghost wolf
  3. ghost word
  4. ghost words
  5. ghost work
  6. ghost write
  7. ghost writer
  8. ghost writers
  9. ghost writes
  10. ghost writing
  11. ghost written

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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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