colleague

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Employees & colleagues
alum
alumna
alumnae
alumni
alumnus
compatriot
girl
goonda
hireling
homeworker
homeworking
nominee
office politics
office spouse
operative
oppo
payroll
peon
self-starter
workmate

Examples from literature

Although Miss Anthony and her co-workers still believed that, with a true interpretation, women were voters under these amendments, they were obliged to accept the decision of the highest court of appeal. 
For in her they have come to lose one of their oldest and most distinguished co-workers. 
No man could have a more ideal co-worker. 
The bookseller and the librarian are not rivals, but co-workers. 
When the high chair was done the boys complimented their co-workers on the success of their first experiment. 

co-worker | American Dictionary

co-worker
noun[ C ]
(alsocoworker)us/ˈkoʊˌwɜr·kər/
a person working with another worker, esp. as a partner or one who helps

co-worker | Business English

co-worker
noun[ C ]
(US alsocoworker)uk /ˌkəʊˈwɜːkər/us
WORKPLACE
a person who you work with, especially someone with a similar job or level of responsibility:
American workers in recent years have seen their co-workers laid off or downsized out of jobs.

Examples of co-worker

co-worker
If the co-worker keeps a larger distance from the patient, the amount of exposure can be kept much lower.
Another co-worker recalled him saying that 'he didn't want to have any government official telling him what to do'.
Employees faced with directives they did not understand would also ask for help from a bilingual co-worker if one were readily available.
In a simple analogy, we might compare this to our experience of a person we know in a certain context as a co-worker, a teacher.
Notably, co-worker social support had a strong protective effect on future fatigue in women.
By far, the most common talk partner was one's spouse or significant other, followed by another relative, a friend, or a co-worker.
Not long afterwards, he told a co-worker that he probably would not be seeing him again.
This legitimating language de-humanized the "other" in the conflict and quickly turned neighbor, co-worker, relative, or simply fellow citizen into an alien whose very existence threatened one's own existence.
A co-worker of the patient is very unlikely to be within l m range of the patient for more than 6 hours a day every day.
A minimal distribution index means that a scientist's achievements are recognized by only a very small part of the discipline, in the extreme case by a single co-worker.
The inspector is now often welcomed as a consultant and co-worker, not dreaded as an inquisitor.
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