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Confederate vs Collaborator - What's the difference?

confederate | collaborator |

As nouns the difference between confederate and collaborator

is that confederate is a member of a confederacy while collaborator is a person who works with others towards a common goal.

As an adjective confederate

is of, relating to, or united in a confederacy.

As a verb confederate

is to combine into a confederacy.

confederate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a member of a confederacy
  • an accomplice in a plot
  • * Macaulay
    • He found some of his confederates in gaol.
  • (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  • banded together; allied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

    Quotations

    * , Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12 *: Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, *: Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To combine into a confederacy.
    • ----

    collaborator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works with others towards a common goal.
  • A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.

    • See also

    * collaborate * collaboration