collaborator

noun

col·​lab·​o·​ra·​tor kə-ˈla-bə-ˌrā-tər 

: a person who collaborates with another: such as

a

: someone who works with another person or group

They thanked their collaborators on the project.

With our students and collaborators, we have developed … a tool that couples a video camera with specialized computation.

—Frédo Durand et al.

b

: someone who assists an enemy (such as an invader or part of an occupying force)

… the Germans had allies and collaborators who, whether from conviction or perceived necessity, sought a privileged place in Hitler's New Order.

—Robert Skidelsky

Examples of collaborator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One of the demos used to promote the product was a group selfie of Sam Altman and a couple of his collaborators transformed into a drawing in the style of the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, of the animation house Studio Ghibli. —Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025

The team worked with collaborators from the Weizmann Institute of Science and DatGraph. —Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025

Think of them as collaborators with domain expertise baked in. —Norbert Jung, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025

Now, more mainstream pop artists are integrating country sounds into their work, like Sabrina Carpenter, one of Allen's closest creative collaborators. —Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1802, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for collaborator

• accelerator
• accumulator
• adjudicator
• administrator
• appropriator
• articulator
• attenuator
• bronchodilator
• communicator
• conciliator
• cooperator
• coordinator