ghost write

A form of ghostwrite — To write under the name of another (especially literary works).

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Meanings

verbghost write (third-person singular simple present ghost writes, present participle ghost writing, simple past ghost wrote, past participle ghost written)

present singular third person ghost writes · participle present ghost writing · past ghost wrote · participle past ghost written

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ghostwrite.

    Some will never do it even if you ghost write it for them.

    2012, Asknod, Veterans Administration Claims
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    That idea she'd had on the long drive—offering to ghost write Jamison's story—was a good one. Maybe fate had sent him into her life for this very reason.

    2012, Stephanie Doyle, The Way Back

    Had it simply been an autobiography, he could have engaged a well-known journalist to ghost write it, but his conception of the book meant that the helper would also need considerable financial and investment knowledge.

    2014, Christopher Risso-Gill, Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, page 345
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APA

ghost write. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20write

MLA

“ghost write.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20write. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ghost write,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20write.

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