"ghost write" meaning in English

See ghost write in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: ghost writes [present, singular, third-person], ghost writing [participle, present], ghost wrote [past], ghost written [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|ghost write<,,wrote,written>}} ghost write (third-person singular simple present ghost writes, present participle ghost writing, simple past ghost wrote, past participle ghost written)
  1. Alternative form of ghostwrite Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ghostwrite
    Sense id: en-ghost_write-en-verb-8DEWWMPU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "form": "ghost wrote",
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      },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Stephanie Doyle, The Way Back:",
          "text": "That idea she'd had on the long drive—offering to ghost write Jamison's story—was a good one. Maybe fate had sent him into her life for this very reason.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Asknod, Veterans Administration Claims:",
          "text": "Some will never do it even if you ghost write it for them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Christopher Risso-Gill, Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, page 345:",
          "text": "Had it simply been an autobiography, he could have engaged a well-known journalist to ghost write it, but his conception of the book meant that the helper would also need considerable financial and investment knowledge.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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    {
      "form": "ghost wrote",
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          "text": "Some will never do it even if you ghost write it for them.",
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