collaborational

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From collaboration +‎ -al.

Adjective[edit]

collaborational (comparative more collaborational, superlative most collaborational)

  1. Synonym of collaborative.
    • 1938, Luigi Sturzo, translated by Barbara Barclay Carter, “The Crisis of Democracy”, in Politics and Morality, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, →OCLC, page 41:
      There are those who believe that gradual, collaborational, and evolutionary Socialism, like that of the German Social Democrats or British Labour, de Man’s following in Belgium, a fraction of the S.F.T.O. in France, and the forms of Socialism in the Scandinavian countries, will gain the ascendancy over the classical, authoritarian, and revolutionary Socialism.
    • 1951, The Trial of the Treasonable Slovak Bishops, Jàn Vojtaššák, Michal Buzalka, Pavol Gojdič, Prague: Orbis, →OCLC, page 153:
      President: So Lettrich counted on Vojtaššák to campaign during the elections for the Democratic Party? And, so, on the grounds of his intervention you succeeded in obtaining the release of Vojtaššák? / Obtulovič: Yes. He assumed that if the Democratic Party won the elections, his case of collaborational activity would be definitely dropped and obliterated.
    • 1957, Helen Howe, The Success of Margot Masters, London: Macdonald, →OCLC, page 275:
      There wasn’t enough meat in what he had told her to warrant so much as the purchase of her customary collaborational notebook.