{
    "term": "collaborate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "collaborate",
            "heSheIt": "collaborates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "collaborated",
        "pastParticiple": "collaborated",
        "ingForm": "collaborating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to work together with somebody in order to produce or achieve something",
            "sensetop": "collaborate (with somebody) (on something)collaborate (with somebody) (in something/in doing something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Researchers around the world are collaborating to develop a new vaccine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have collaborated on many projects over the years.",
                    "contextForm": "collaborate (with somebody) (on something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She agreed to collaborate with him in writing the biography of her grandmother.",
                    "contextForm": "collaborate (with somebody) (in something/in doing something)"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["actively", "closely"],
                "preposition": ["on", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to help the enemy who has taken control of your country during a war",
            "sensetop": "collaborate (with somebody)",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was accused of collaborating with the enemy."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪt/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborate__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪts/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪt/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪts/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/collaborate/collaborating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 19th cent.: from Latin collaborat- ‘worked with’, from the verb collaborare, from col- ‘together’ + laborare ‘to work’."
}