v. [f. mod.F. collaborer, or its original, L. collabōrā-re (f. col- together + labōrāre to work, LABOUR): see -ATE.] intr. To work in conjunction with another or others, to co-operate; esp. in a literary or artistic production, or the like.
1871. J. H. Appleton, Life & Lit. Relics (1881), 25. The collaborators of the Revue critique, especially those who collaborate for the Academy.
1882. V. Lee, in Contemp. Rev., XLII. 850. Composers who collaborated with Metastasio in the opera of the eighteenth century.
Hence Collaborating ppl. a., etc.
1872. Geo. Eliot, Middlemarch, I. 269. The ingenious work of the collaborating authors.
