collaborationism

1. 1.

   act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

   Synonymscollaborationquislingism

   Broadercooperation

Other forms of collaborationism

plural

collaborationisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about collaborationism

What does collaborationism mean?

collaborationism means "act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country".

How many syllables are in collaborationism?

collaborationism has 7 syllables: col-la-bo-ra-ti-o-nism. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for collaborationism?

Close synonyms include collaboration, quislingism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collaborationism a common word?

collaborationism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.