ghostwrite
verbEtymology Back-formation from ghostwriter.
1
Authorship, Broadcasting, Communications, Film, Journalism, Literature, Media, Publishing, Television, Writing 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, Broadcasting, Communications, Film, Journalism, Literature, Media, Publishing, Television, Writing To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
- The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.
- 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:
- Related terms
- ghostwriter, ghostwritten