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Definition of ghostwrite verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

ghostwrite

verb

NAmE//ˈɡoʊstraɪt//

(also ghost) [transitive, often passive, intransitive] ghostwrite (something)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they ghostwrite

he / she / it ghostwrites

past simple ghostwrote

past participle ghostwritten

-ing form ghostwriting

to write a book, an article, etc. for another person who publishes it as their own work Her memoirs were ghostwritten.

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