collaborator:

(plural: ‘collaborators‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

‘to collaborate’ = to work together; to help the enemy

A

collaborators working together

two collaborators working together

a person who works together with someone else


B

a collaborator -- a Senegalese giving information to a German soldier

a collaborator — a Senegalese (R) giving information to a German soldier during war time

 

 

 

a person who helps an enemy country to enter and take control of his/her own country;

 

 


C

two collaborators in a hold-up

two collaborators in a hold-up (a bank robbery)

a person who assists/helps someone in a plot or illegal activity


e.g.

The chief investigator along with his collaborators has interrogated all the suspects, and after the consultations with her collaborators, she came to the conclusion that all the suspects were innocent.

During the World War II, Nazi Germany had collaborators most of the countries who actually made it possible for Nazis to almost  win the war.

Collaborators in a theft or a hold up stay safe from the police as long as they stay together, but once a dispute or disagreement between the collaborators in sharing the booty develops, then all hell breaks loose and one of the collaborators gets them all behind bars!

For a news item about a collaborator being killed, please click here, and for another interesting news article about Nazi collaborators, please click here. And for an article that shows this word being used in the sense of working together, please click here.

Compare: collaborator ~~ corroborator in ‘Words Often Confused’.

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