Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - ghost-write

also ghostwrite (ghost-writes, ghost-writing, ghost-wrote, ghost-written) If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, 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. Articles were ghost-written by company employees. = ghost VERB: usu passive, be V-ed