ghostwrite

• ghost-write, ghost write

Back-formation from ghostwriter.

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

1. (authorship, intransitive) To 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. (authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.

   The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

   • 2018 September 4, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 September 2018:

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

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