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If a book or other piece of writing is g______, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail.I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph. nounA ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel ....the ghost of Marie Antoinette.The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.The Rams have finally laid the ghost of seasons past to rest....the ghost of anti-Americanism.If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.He gave the ghost of a smile.The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.verbIf a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail.I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph. B1

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query	If a book or other piece of writing is g______, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work. I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
word	ghost
full-definition	noun A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel . ...the ghost of Marie Antoinette. The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children. The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it. The Rams have finally laid the ghost of seasons past to rest. ...the ghost of anti-Americanism. If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists. He gave the ghost of a smile. The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west. verb If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work. I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
inflections	ghostsghostingghosted
cefr-level	B1

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