collaborateur

collaborateur (plural collaborateurs)

1. Dated form of collaborator.

Borrowed from French collaborateur. The word became the primary label for Nazi collaborators during the Second World War and has been extremely pejorative ever since.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.laː.boː.raːˈtøːr/

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧bo‧ra‧teur
• Rhymes: -øːr

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, diminutive collaborateurtje n)

1. (derogatory) one who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator [from WW II]
2. (dated) a collaborator, one who cooperates on a certain work [19th c.–early 1940s]

• collaboratie
• collaboreren

• → Indonesian: kolaborator

From Late Latin collabōrāre +‎ -ateur, or constructed from collaborer +‎ -eur; eventually from Latin col- (“with, together”) + labor (“work”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.la.bɔ.ʁa.tœʁ/

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collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, feminine collaboratrice)

1. collaborator
2. (in particular, derogatory) one who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator [from WW II]

   Synonym: collabo

• “collaborateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French collaborateur.

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs)

1. (Jersey) (Nazi) collaborator