Facilitate vs. Collaborate

To make easy or easier.

To help bring about.

To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

Example: ‘To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for.’;

make easier;

Example: ‘you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge’;

be of use;

Example: ‘This will help to prevent accidents’;

physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response);

Example: ‘The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse’;

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

Example: ‘Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.’;

To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.

Example: ‘If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.’;

to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book.

to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country.

work together on a common enterprise of project;

Example: ‘The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well’; ‘We joined forces with another research group’;

cooperate as a traitor;

Example: ‘he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris’;