ghostwriter

• ghost writer

From ghost +‎ writer.

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ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)

1. A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

   Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.

   • 2021 April 13, Cady Lang, “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming more visible, with celebrities openly teaming up with high-profile professionals.

• → German: Ghostwriter
• → Japanese: ゴーストライター (gōsutoraitā)
• → Polish: ghostwriter
• → Portuguese: ghostwriter
• → Russian: гостра́йтер (gostrájter)

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔwstˈraj.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -ajtɛr
• Syllabification: ghost‧wri‧ter

ghostwriter m pers (female equivalent ghostwriterka)

1. ghostwriter (professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity)

   Synonym: murzyn

• ghostwriter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

ghostwriter m or f by sense (plural ghostwriters)

1. ghostwriter (professional writer for another person)