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ghostwrite en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from ghostwriter.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
    • Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
  2. (transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
    • The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.
    • Before I read her book, I wondered if it had been ghostwritten, like many such books. 2018 April 9, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2018:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ghostwritten Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ghostwrote Tense=Past lexicographic
ghostwrites Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ghost-write alternative lexicographic
ghostwriting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ghost write alternative lexicographic

Relateds

ghostwritten · ghostwriter

Translations (8)

fi kirjoittaa (author a literary work) · cmn 代筆 /代笔 (author a literary work) · fi haamukirjoittaa (write under the name of another) · af spookskryf (write under the name of another) · cmn 代筆 /代笔 (write under the name of another) · hu szellemíróként/négerként dolgozik/működik/ír (write under the name of another) · hu (helyette, más helyett) megír (author a literary work) · cmn 捉刀 (write under the name of another)