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Meanings of ghostwriter in English

Russian
призрак пера
Portuguese
ghost-writer
Spanish
negro
Catalan
negre literari
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Writer who writes speeches or texts in the name and commissioned by another person.

Related terms
призрак пера
Portuguese
ghost-writer
Catalan
escriptor fantasma

A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.

ghost-writer
Usage of ghostwriter in English
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And so far, I you know, people say you're getting a ghostwriter.
The new yorker
2
Cardi B publicly admitted to using payola and to having a ghostwriter.
The South African
3
Walsh Was himself, 16 years ago, the ghostwriter for Eddie Rickenbacker.
The new yorker
4
F-f-five books in one s-series, and each by a different g-g-ghostwriter.
One of our Thursdays is missing
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Every day he records some memories and hands the tapes to his ghostwriter.
The Guardian
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Mike Vlessides is the ghostwriter, or perhaps more appropriately the editor, of this book.
Survive!: essential skills and tactics to get you out of anywher...
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So perhaps Ulysses was the origin of rumours that Griffith had a Jewish adviser-ghostwriter?
The Irish Times
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But unlike so many sporting autobiographies, this was not glossed over by a ghostwriter.
The Irish Times
9
Contributing editor for the London Review of Books, and ghostwriter of Julian Assange's abandoned memoir.
Radio NZ
10
Stepping out of the ghostwriter role, Haley delivers the book's epilogue in his own voice.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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He referenced Drake being exposed for using a ghostwriter named Quintin Miller a few years back.
The South African
12
Trump -who collaborated with Tony Schwartz on the first book-hireda new ghostwriter, Charles Leerhsen.
NY Magazine
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Instead, Houdini passed along the gossip that Robert-Houdin might have used a ghostwriter for his memoirs.
Hiding the Elephant
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It deserves its own ghostwriter at this stage.
The Irish Times
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Every human being the ghostwriter encounters seems to be dealing from the bottom of the deck.
Reuters
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The ghostwriter's place is at the tradesman's entrance.
The Irish Times