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collaborational en · ADJ

Etymology

From collaboration + -al.

Meanings

1. Synonym of collaborative.
   • 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. 1951, The Trial of the Treasonable Slovak Bishops, Jàn Vojtaššák, Michal Buzalka, Pavol Gojdič, Prague: Orbis, →OCLC, page 153:
   • There wasn’t enough meat in what he had told her to warrant so much as the purchase of her customary collaborational notebook. 1957, Helen Howe, The Success of Margot Masters, London: Macdonald, →OCLC, page 275:
   • 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. 1938, Luigi Sturzo, translated by Barbara Barclay Carter, “The Crisis of Democracy”, in Politics and Morality, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, →OCLC, page 41:

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collaborative