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ghost writer

ghost writer is the alternative spelling of ghostwriter.

Meaning of ghostwriter

Noun

ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)

  1. A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.
    • Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.

Forms of ghost writer

pluralghost writers

Questions about ghost writer

What is ghost writer the alternative spelling of?
Ghost writer is the alternative spelling of ghostwriter.

Words near ghost writer in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost writer (page history and authors); ghostwriter (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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