Participate vs. Collaborate

Participate vs. Collaborate — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Participate and Collaborate

Participateverb

(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

Collaborateverb

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

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

Participateverb

To share, share in (something).

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.

Participateverb

(obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.

Collaborateverb

work together on a common enterprise of project;

The soprano and the pianist did not get together very wellWe joined forces with another research group
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Participateadjective

(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.

Collaborateverb

cooperate as a traitor;

he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris

Participateverb

share in something

Participateverb

become a participant; be involved in;

enter a raceenter an agreemententer a drug treatment programenter negotiations