collaboration

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + French -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

collaboration (countable and uncountable, plural collaborations)

1. (uncountable) The act of collaborating.

   Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.

2. (countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.

   The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.

3. (uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.

   He has been charged with collaboration.

Related termsEdit

• collaborate
• collaborator
• collaborative
• collaboratively

TranslationsEdit

act of collaborating

• Albanian: bashkëpunim (sq) m
• Armenian: գործակցություն (hy) (gorcakcʿutʿyun), կոլլաբորացիոնիզմ (kollaboracʿionizm)
• Catalan: col·laboració f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 (zh), 协作 (zh) (xiézuò)

• Czech: spolupráce (cs) f
• Dutch: samenwerking (nl) f, het samenwerken (nl)
• Esperanto: kunlaboraĵo, kunlaborado, kunlaboro
• Finnish: yhteistyö (fi), myötävaikuttaminen, myötävaikutus, kollaboraatio
• French: collaboration (fr) f
• German: Kollektivarbeit f, Zusammenarbeit (de) f, Kollaboration (de) f
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía)
• Hungarian: együttműködés (hu)

• Italian: collaborazione (it) f
• Japanese: コラボレーション (ja) (koraborēshon), コラボ (korabo), 協調 (ja) (きょうちょう,kyōchō), 協力 (ja) (きょうりょく, kyōryoku), 共働 (きょうどう, kyōdō), 合作 (ja) (がっさく, gassaku)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: samarbeid (no)
• Polish: współpraca (pl) f
• Portuguese: colaboração (pt) f
• Romanian: colaborare (ro) f, colaborări f pl
• Russian: сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коопера́ция (ru) f (kooperácija), совме́стная рабо́та f (sovméstnaja rabóta)
• Spanish: colaboración (es) f
• Swahili: kolabo (sw)
• Swedish: samarbete (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: imece (tr), iş birliği (tr)

joint production or creation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合作 (zh) (hézuò), 協作 (zh), 协作 (zh) (xiézuò)

• Finnish: yhteistuotanto
• Greek: συνεργασία (el) f (synergasía)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: совме́стная рабо́та f (sovméstnaja rabóta), сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

treasonous cooperation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勾結 (zh), 勾结 (zh) (gōujié), 通敵 (zh), 通敌 (zh) (tōngdí)

• Czech: kolaborace (cs) f
• Dutch: collaboratie (nl) f
• Finnish: myötävaikuttaminen
• French: collaboration (fr) f
• German: Kollaboration (de) f, Zusammenarbeit (de) f

• Hungarian: kollaborálás
• Japanese: 裏切り (うらぎり, uragiri) (treason), 利敵協力 (りてききょうりょく, riteki kyōryoku)
• Polish: kolaboracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: conspiração (pt) f, formação de quadrilha f
• Russian: (предательское) сотру́дничество (ru) n (sotrúdničestvo), коллаборациони́зм (ru) m (kollaboracionízm)
• Swahili: kolabo (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: שיתוף פעולה (shituf pe'ula) m

ReferencesEdit

• “collaboration” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4.
• “collaboration” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–.
• "collaboration" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From collaborer +‎ -tion, from Late Latin collaboratio, from Latin com- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
• Homophone: collaborations
• Hyphenation: co‧lla‧bo‧ra‧tion

NounEdit

collaboration f (plural collaborations)

1. collaboration

Further readingEdit

• “collaboration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).