co-author

From co- +‎ author.

co-author (plural co-authors)

1. Alternative form of coauthor.
   • 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “Immediate investment in High Speed North urged”, in Rail, page 18:

     The report's co-authors Ian Wray, David Thrower, and Jim Steer point to the building of the motorways in the 1960s and 1970s, when new sections were added progressively and in "financially digestible chunks".

   • 2023 December 20, Eric Kim, “A Creamy, Melty Potato Casserole That’s Outrageously Easy to Make”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     While Linder prefers his taters cut skinny, as they are in restaurant iterations of the dish, his co-author, the television chef Johanna Westman, says she prefers them thick, as in her Grandma Alva’s recipe.

   • 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.

co-author (third-person singular simple present co-authors, present participle co-authoring, simple past and past participle co-authored)

1. Alternative form of coauthor.

• “co-author”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.