ghostwriter

• ghost writer

From ghost +‎ writer.

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ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)

1. A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

   Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.

   • 2021 April 13, Cady Lang, “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good”, in TIME‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 April 2021:

     Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming more visible, with celebrities openly teaming up with high-profile professionals.

   • 2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 August 2024:

     But “Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.

• → German: Ghostwriter
• → Japanese: ゴーストライター (gōsutoraitā)
• → Polish: ghostwriter
• → Portuguese: ghostwriter
• → Russian: гостра́йтер (gostrájter)

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔwstˈraj.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -ajtɛr
• Syllabification: ghost‧wri‧ter

ghostwriter m pers (female equivalent ghostwriterka)

1. ghostwriter (professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity)

   Synonym: murzyn

• “ghostwriter”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter.

ghostwriter m or f by sense (plural ghostwriters)

1. ghostwriter (professional writer for another person)