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ghostwriting

ghostwriting is the present participle and gerund 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.

Noun

ghostwriting (uncountable)

  1. Writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name.

Questions about ghostwriting

What does ghostwriting mean?
Ghostwriting means writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name.
What is ghostwriting the present participle and gerund of?
Ghostwriting is the present participle and gerund of ghostwrite.
What part of speech is ghostwriting?
Ghostwriting is a noun.

Words near ghostwriting in the dictionary

  1. ghostwrite
  2. ghostwriter
  3. ghostwriters
  4. ghostwritership
  5. ghostwrites
  6. ghostwriting
  7. ghostwritten
  8. ghostwrote
  9. ghosty
  10. ghoti
  11. ghoties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghostwriting (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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