Meaning & use

collaborate

verb·Academic

To work together with another person or group, especially to produce or achieve something.

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The two research teams agreed to collaborate on a joint study of the disease.

Musicians from different countries collaborated on the charity album.

A note on using this word

"Collaborate" can also carry a negative historical sense meaning to cooperate with an enemy occupying force.

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