Collaborate vs. Teammate

Collaborateverb

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

‘Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.’;

Teammatenoun

One who is on the same team.

Collaborateverb

To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

‘If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.’;

Teammatenoun

a fellow member of a team;

‘it was his first start against his former teammates’;

Collaborateverb

to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book.

Collaborateverb

to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.

Collaborateverb

work together on a common enterprise of project;

‘The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well’; ‘We joined forces with another research group’;

Collaborateverb

cooperate as a traitor;

‘he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris’;