COLLABORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collaboration mean? 

• COLLABORATION (noun)
  The noun COLLABORATION has 2 senses:

1. act of working jointly

2. act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

  Familiarity information: COLLABORATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLABORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of working jointly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coaction; collaboration

Context example:

they worked either in collaboration or independently

Hypernyms ("collaboration" is a kind of...):

cooperation (joint operation or action)

Derivation:

collaborate (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

collaboration; collaborationism; quislingism

Hypernyms ("collaboration" is a kind of...):

cooperation (joint operation or action)

Derivation:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

collaborationist (someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force)

 Context examples 

A new collaboration between two UC Santa Barbara labs explored the underlying molecular mechanism of a remarkable process called anastasis, a Greek word meaning "rising to life."

(Cells Back from Brink of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the current study, researchers from Uppsala University in collaboration with research groups around Europe, investigated if coffee and tea consumption may lead to epigenetic changes.

(Tea Consumption: Epigenetic Changes in Women, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Through several iterations of materials engineering, plus analyses performed in collaboration with scientists at the Gemological Institute of America, the team produced neutral silicon vacancies in diamonds.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In collaboration with the researchers from Liverpool John Moore University, the UGR researchers used statistical techniques to analyse the full kinematics curves, based on tracing point trajectories.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

This has been an exciting collaboration between artists and scientists, and it has produced results which may have a real-world impact, particularly for people who are experiencing high levels of stress.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Keep in mind that the relationship in question might be romantic or one based on a business collaboration.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Researchers from the University of Granada, in collaboration with the company Puratos, have conducted an in-depth study on the potential benefits of a cereal-based bread enriched with soluble fibre, proteins and dried fruit.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

A recent collaboration between the two pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly has found that their anti-inflammatory drug, tanezumab, produced pain relief for osteoarthritic patients in a phase 3 clinical trial.

(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, in collaboration with extramural organizations, have sequenced nearly the entire genome of human, mouse and rat Pneumocystis.

(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)

Scientists have new insights about these fundamental questions, thanks to an international collaboration of more than 400 scientists called the Dark Energy Survey (DES).

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)