Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes for and gives credit of authorship to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone else.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A professional
writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, or reports which are officiallycredited to another person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ironically, the term in French for a ghostwriter is a “nègre littéraire (a literary Negro),” and ghostwriting is called “negritude.”
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The ghostwriter is flown to an out-of-season Cape Cod where the Prime Minister and his entourage are in quasi-exile to write his memoirs and allow the dust from his term in office to settle.
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Claiming there was a ghostwriter is a pretty lame excuse for someone whose entire foundation and principles rest with personal liberties and responsibility.
Andy Ostroy: What Our Young Folks Need to Know About Ron Paul Andy Ostroy 2011
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Claiming there was a ghostwriter is a pretty lame excuse for someone whose entire foundation and principles rest with personal liberties and responsibility.
Andy Ostroy: What Our Young Folks Need to Know About Ron Paul Andy Ostroy 2011
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Claiming there was a ghostwriter is a pretty lame excuse for someone whose entire foundation and principles rest with personal liberties and responsibility.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Andy Ostroy 2011
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Individualist-feminist Wendy McElroy, who on her blog characterized the author as an associate of hers for many years, called the ghostwriter's identity
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Co-author Ken Abraham is known as a ghostwriter to the stars, but his work could have been better here.
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A ghostwriter is a professional writer hired to write various projects such as books, articles, stories, speeches, etc. that is attributed to someone else.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Kennedy called him "my intellectual blood bank" and the press frequently referred to Sorensen as Kennedy's "ghostwriter," especially after the release of "Profiles in Courage."
Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010
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Kennedy called him "my intellectual blood bank" and the press frequently referred to Sorensen as Kennedy's "ghostwriter," especially after the release of "Profiles in Courage."
Ted Sorensen DEAD: John F. Kennedy Speechwriter, Obama Supporter, Dies At 82 AP 2010
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