ghostwrite

present singular third person ghostwrites · participle present ghostwriting · past ghostwrote · participle past ghostwritten · alternative ghost-write · alternative ghost write

1. intransitiveauthorshipTo write under the name of another (especially literary works).

   Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.

2. transitiveauthorshipTo author a literary work or speech in the place of another.

   The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

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   Before I read her book, I wondered if it had been ghostwritten, like many such books.

   2018 April 9, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2018