Both Uses of
collaborate
in
The Age of Innocence
- Since their last meeting he had half-unconsciously collaborated with events in ridding himself of the burden of Madame Olenska.†
Chpt 11 *
- Her incapacity to recognise change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his; there had been, from the first, a joint pretence of sameness, a kind of innocent family hypocrisy, in which father and children had unconsciously collaborated.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(collaborate) work together on a common enterprise or project
or more rarely and especially in the form collaborator: cooperate with the enemy as a traitor