collaborateur

collaborateur (plural collaborateurs)

1. Dated form of collaborator.

Borrowed from French collaborateur. The word became the primary label for Nazi collaborators during the Second World War and has been extremely pejorative ever since.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.laː.boː.raːˈtøːr/

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧bo‧ra‧teur
• Rhymes: -øːr

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, diminutive collaborateurtje n)

1. (derogatory) One who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator. [from WW II]
2. (dated) A collaborator, one who cooperates on a certain work. [19th c. - early 1940s]

From Late Latin collaborare +‎ -ateur (or collaborer +‎ -eur), equivalent to Latin col- (“with, together”) + labor (“work”).

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, feminine collaboratrice)

1. collaborator

• “collaborateur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French collaborateur.

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs)

1. (Jersey) (Nazi) collaborator