Associations to the word «Collaborator»

Wiktionary

COLLABORATOR, noun. A person who works with others towards a common goal.
COLLABORATOR, noun. A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.

Dictionary definition

COLLABORATOR, noun. Someone who assists in a plot.
COLLABORATOR, noun. Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.
COLLABORATOR, noun. An associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats