collaborator

collaborator
   1. a traitor
   He works disloyally for the conqueror, not loyally for another like-minded person:
    The English so often have these unknown French friends... Collaborators one and all. (N. Mitford, 1960)
   Collaborationist is specific:
    I told him I was not a collaborationist, that I was a doctor. (Fowles, 1977, writing of a Greek in the Second World War)
   To collaborate is so to act:
    ... the French government was required to order the administration to 'collaborate' with the German miliary authorities in the Occupied Zone. (Ousby, 1997)
   2. a ghost writer
   The labour is mostly done by the ghost:
    Crawford Sloane's book, The Camera and the Truth had been published several months earlier. Written with a collaborator, it was his third. (Hailey, 1990)

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