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A2 one of a group of people who work together: We're entertaining some colleagues of Carol's tonight. Synonym
co-worker
More examplesFewer examplesI don't know anything about this, but I'm sure my colleague here can help you.We're having a small drinks party for one of our colleagues who's leaving next week.Her work is highly esteemed by all her colleagues.Please read this memo carefully and hand it on to your colleagues.His colleagues became suspicious when he did not appear at work, since he was always punctual.
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one of a group of people who work together: He always got along well with his colleagues in the university.
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WORKPLACE a person that you work with: He has a good working relationship with colleagues.
(Definition of colleague from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of colleague
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He cast his readers not as colleagues in an emerging philosophical community, but as remote, credit-giving consumers.
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This was reinforced by the low priority given to public health work at all levels within the organization and by primary care team colleagues.
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Trainees reported having to work hard to promote the role and to build effective working relationships with colleagues.
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It is the task of his former students and colleagues to keep the discipline challenging.
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Spreading a reproduction before students and colleagues always gains a response, usually verbal.
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The book was completed and prepared for publication by some of his friends and colleagues.
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For that to become a reality, each of us must be prepared to examine our own attitudes and actions as well as those of colleagues.
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They can act in confidence if they know that they have the back-up and support of their colleagues and the patient's relatives.
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Often it has been simply a gesture of tact towards the feelings, however bigoted, of others, whether friends, family or colleagues.
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He challenged his younger colleagues to think more globally, to seek the simplest explanation, and above all, to do the right experiment.
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These gifts not only endeared him to many friends and colleagues but made him a valued member of boards and committees.
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He and his colleagues argue that life's events are encoded selectively depending on the current themes and goals of the self.
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The network has enabled practitioners to gain research experience by working with more experienced colleagues.
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The author, along with other research colleagues and representatives from the industry, carried out an in-depth analysis in relation to information management.
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Working alone with a newly appointed colleague who is unfamiliar with equipment and techniques.
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dear colleagueWe will send this information in a "dear colleague" letter.
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distinguished colleagueThat was a distinguished colleague, who has gone.
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experienced colleagueIn practice, this is likely to mean that they would undertake the sort of teaching duties that teaching assistants would undertake under the close supervision of a more experienced colleague.
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colleague
noun
col·league
ˈkä-(ˌ)lēg
Synonyms of colleague
: an associate or coworker typically in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office and often of similar rank or status : a fellow worker or professional
colleagueship
ˈkä-(ˌ)lēg-ˌship
noun
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Which of the following words come from the same source as colleague: college, legacy, collaborate, allegation, collar, relegate, delegate? It might be easier to guess if you know that the ancestor in question is legare, a Latin verb meaning "to choose or send as a deputy or emissary" or "to bequeath." All of the words in the list above except collaborate (which comes from the Latin collaborare, meaning "to labor together") and collar (from collum, collus, Latin for "neck") are descendants of legare.
Synonyms
associate
confrere
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coworker
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Examples of colleague in a Sentence
Not since Cronkite's CBS mentor and colleague Edward R. Murrow lifted Senator Joe McCarthy by the skunk tail for public inspection had one TV broadcast reflected such a fateful climate change in public opinion.
—James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, June 2003
My colleague Gene Sperling and I were standing over my speakerphone, but for all Mario Cuomo knew we were on our knees.
—George Stephanopoulos, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 1999
Nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, a colleague of Charles Darwin, was the first to suggest that dinosaurs and birds were related.
—Laura Tangley, U.S. News & World Report, 6 July 1998
… it gets noticed no more than an hour later by another colleague of mine, whom I've never met personally but know to be an art historian …
—John Barth, Atlantic, March 1995
A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
on her first day at work her colleagues went out of their way to make her feel welcome
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Jonsson included specific examples of White defensiveness among his colleagues, but White colonels aren’t the only folks Jonsson made uneasy.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
Some held watch parties for sporting events, others organized career learning and development sessions for younger colleagues, and then there were Lego building events to promote strategic thinking.
—Trey Williams, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
The Oscar night wasn’t all lost for Wallis, who won his second Irving Thalberg Award, which was presented by his former Warner Bros. colleague Darryl F. Zanuck.
—Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
Through years of careful study, collection, and observation in the wild and the lab, Jared and his colleagues have overcome the unknown to make some remarkable discoveries about S. annulatus.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
Broward deputies gunned down a transit worker who had shot at them after killing his colleague at a Pompano Beach county bus repair facility Wednesday night, authorities say.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
Ultimately, though, the vast majority of her GOP colleagues in both chambers supported the bill.
—The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2024
Raman has drawn a clear distinction with Weaver and some of her current colleagues by opposing a city law that prohibits homeless encampments near schools.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Check out my colleague David Phelan’s story on that here.
Competition between the biggest smartphone makers is fierce right now.
—Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
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Middle French collegue, from Latin collega, from com- + legare to depute — more at legate
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circa 1533, in the meaning defined above
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What to Know
Today, colleague is used more often in professional contexts, sometimes referring to people who work in the same field but not for the same institution, whereas coworker tends to be used for people who share a workspace or duties.
By convention, we don’t give etymologies for obvious compound words (breadboard, daytime, salesman) or those partly composed of common affix forms (solderless, fraudful, preload), since the histories of such words' respective parts are found elsewhere in the dictionary. If the compound was formed in another language before it came to English, on the other hand, then the etymology is shown (prejudge, companion). This is a legacy of print dictionary production (it saved a lot of space on the page), but isn’t always convenient or helpful today.
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The Roots of 'Coworker' and 'Colleague'
One of the helpful things about etymology is seeing the plain and independent original meanings of the various parts of a compound word. For example, the co- of coworker is from the Latin word com, mean “with” or “together.” Depending upon the spelling of the word that it’s joined to, this prefix in English is sometimes is also spelled con-, col-, or co-.
This gives coworker a pattern parallel to that of colleague, which begins with the same Latin prefix com-, here spelled col- to combine with the Latin verb legare, meaning “to choose” or “to send as deputy.” Other etymological cousins include delegation (“a chosen or deputized group”) and legacy, (originally, “the office or position of a legate or deputy,” later, “something sent or bequeathed”).
The com- in companion is also a parallel use of this prefix. If a coworker shares “work” with someone and a colleague shares the duties of an office for which they were “chosen” together, a companion is the person one shares “bread” (in Latin, panis) with.
Unlike these Latin word parts, worker is just the noun formed from the Old English-derived verb work, so coworker combines a Latin prefix with a word derived from Old English roots—a common blend of the different language families made in early modern English.
'Coworker' and 'Colleague' Through History
While it’s true that the meanings of the words colleague and coworker are very similar, evidence of their usage, while often overlapping, shows slightly different contexts for each.
First, colleague is the older word, dating back to the 1500s with use essentially identical to the way we see it today. It was initially used in English to refer to people who had the same jobs or positions relative to those who chose them, beginning with saints and apostles and bishops, making it clear that from the beginning that colleague was not used for employees or laborers but for people who were chosen for some position of distinction or authority.
Coworker was more rare, but starting in the late 1500s it was used in a very particular way, also nearly always with reference to religious or ecclesiastical contexts, but not at all the way colleague was being used. Typical examples from the 1600s include:
and then we begin to be Co-workers with the grace of God
Christ hath no coworker with him
Coworker and grace seem to occur together frequently during this period, showing that the Biblical sense of “the works of God” where works means “performance of moral or religious acts” is what is being referred to, rather than work as a synonym of labor, the way the word is usually used today. Indeed, the oldest use of worker is “maker or creator,” with explicit reference to God. In the King James Bible, worker is most frequently used in the phrase “workers of iniquity,” meaning “sinners,” although there are also references to actual labor, but in far fewer instances. The connection of worker to labor was weaker for English speakers of four hundred years ago than for us today.
Clearly, after the industrial revolution, coworker has gained in usage connected with labor and employment. Today, colleague is used more often in professional contexts, sometimes referring to people who work in the same field but not for the same institution, whereas coworker tends to be used for people who share a workspace or duties.
A look at the words commonly used in close proximity to each shows that they are used in different contexts.
Words closely associated with colleague are:
longtime
fellow
esteemed
trusted
distinguished
experienced
respected
Words closely associated with coworker are:
former
named
preferred
bossy
annoying
difficult
friendly
It is typical for Latin-derived words to be used in a more technical, official, or abstract way than their Old English-derived near synonyms, and while that division is true today in the usage of colleague compared with coworker, it’s an odd circumstance that in this case worker originally meant "performer of miracles." There aren’t many ideas that are more abstract than religious miracles, but English works in mysterious ways.
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A2 one of a group of people who work together: We're entertaining some colleagues of Carol's tonight. Synonym
co-worker
More examplesFewer examplesI don't know anything about this, but I'm sure my colleague here can help you.We're having a small going-away party for one of our colleagues who's leaving next week.Her work is highly esteemed by all her colleagues.Please read this memo carefully and hand it on to your colleagues.His colleagues became suspicious when he did not appear at work, since he was always punctual.
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one of a group of people who work together: He always got along well with his colleagues in the university.
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colleague | Business English
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WORKPLACE a person that you work with: He has a good working relationship with colleagues.
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Examples of colleague
colleague
My closest friends and colleagues had all been men.
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Several suggested the defendants were maligned by former school district colleagues with personal vendettas.
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Unfortunately they didn't realize that these particular colleagues had no specialized expertise in marriage counseling.
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So he and a colleague developed a test to look at students' conceptual understanding of physics.
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His findings confirmed what he and his colleagues had thought all along.
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I see and think through things differently than my colleagues.
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Unfortunately, however, there were a few of our colleagues that we still had to lay off earlier this week.
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I have great respect for all my colleagues.
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This was how his most trusted colleagues addressed him.
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One of my colleagues has her husband drive her to and back from work.
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He and his colleagues combined data from tax returns, hospital surveys and performance and cost reports.
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Ruf and colleagues also found peculiar hollows above the protomammal's secondary palate.
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dear colleagueWe will send this information in a "dear colleague" letter.
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distinguished colleagueThat was a distinguished colleague, who has gone.
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experienced colleagueIn practice, this is likely to mean that they would undertake the sort of teaching duties that teaching assistants would undertake under the close supervision of a more experienced colleague.
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COLLEAGUE Definition & Usage Examples | Dictionary.com
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use colleague in a sentenceSo, to track changes in ocean temperature, Wu and colleagues identified “repeaters” — earthquakes that the team determined to originate from the same location, but occurring at different times.Underwater earthquakes’ sound waves reveal changes in ocean warming | Carolyn Gramling | September 17, 2020 | Science NewsMeanwhile, Oracle, which has long dominated the warehouse space, is expected to move more slowly in its transformation, per my colleague Aaron Pressman.The risks of Snowflake’s IPO | Lucinda Shen | September 16, 2020 | FortuneSultan notes that she and her colleagues found that people who had GI symptoms also took more time to seek care.Google search data can help pinpoint COVID-19 hotspots before they flare up | Kat Eschner | September 15, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe director, a member of a five-person committee that regularly interacts with DHS over election security matters, told her colleagues that there is a point of contact within the agency — and it’s not Quinn.No Democrats Allowed: A Conservative Lawyer Holds Secret Voter Fraud Meetings With State Election Officials | by Mike Spies, Jake Pearson and Jessica Huseman | September 15, 2020 | ProPublicaThose execs are also working with colleagues in the agency network’s talent and insight teams in order to ensure the developments have an impact on the business, not just the workplace.‘It’s all been plan, plan, plan mode:’ Agencies have big ideas for greater diversity, but more action is needed | Seb Joseph | September 15, 2020 | DigidayA colleague overheard two conservative Mass. lawmakers talking about what “the gays” could do.The Real Story Behind the Fight for Marriage Equality | E.J. Graff | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo Hitchcock, this is not a sweet wire from an old colleague but a condolence letter on the occasion of his own death.Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“You got the wrong number for that,” Det. Johnson told her colleague, Coleman, over the phone while I fed her questions.The Disappearing Cops of East St. Louis | Justin Glawe | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaria Tomak says a colleague presented the document directly to Poroshenko when he met with volunteers on August 21.Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military | Charles McPhedran | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs the wrangling continued, Lloyd and Postol grew to rely on their new colleague, Susli.The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad | Noah Shachtman, Michael Kennedy | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo endeavour to establish a case of conspiracy against him, another individual was produced as his colleague.The Philippine Islands | John ForemanHe enlarges upon the kind consent of his distinguished colleague to take charge of my case.Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanHis colleague looks abashed, like a schoolboy caught in a naughty act.Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanTheobald could not find an excuse to outstay his colleague, since they were both guests at the same house.The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdBy his side sat his colleague, wearing a United States soldiers' blue overcoat.The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.See More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for colleaguecolleague/ (ˈkɒliːɡ) /nouna fellow worker or member of a staff, department, profession, etcOrigin of colleague1C16: from French collègue, from Latin collēga one selected at the same time as another, from com- together + lēgāre to chooseCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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He presented the report to his colleagues.He was shunned by colleagues and family alike.He made a number of accusations against his former colleagues.He was an inspiring leader who nurtured the talents of his colleagues.This is a serious charge to make against your colleagues.
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Translations of colleague
in Chinese (Traditional)
同事, 同僚…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
同事, 同僚…
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colega, colega [masculine]…
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in Portuguese
colega, colega (de trabalho) [masculine-feminine]…
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सहकारी…
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同僚, 同僚（どうりょう）…
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iş arkadaşı, meslektaş…
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collègue [masculine-feminine], collègue…
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col·lega…
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collega…
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ஒன்றாக வேலை செய்யும் நபர்களின் குழுவில் ஒருவர்…
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kollega…
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colleague noun /ˈkɒliːɡ/ /ˈkɑːliːɡ/
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a person that you work with, especially in a profession or a businesswork/senior/male colleaguesWe were friends and colleagues for more than 20 years.some of his former colleagues on the councilthe Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues Scientists are now working with colleagues in Arizona to develop a working model.He is described by party colleagues as a workaholic.Russinova and her colleagues found that 74% of participants had held the same job for 24 months or longer.I've talked to colleagues at other universities about it.colleagues in the IT departmenta colleague of mine from the officeTopics Working lifea2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveclosetrustedjunior…See full entryWord Originearly 16th cent.: from French collègue, from Latin collega ‘partner in office’, from col- ‘together with’ + legare ‘depute’.
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colleague nounnoun NAmE//ˈkɑliɡ// jump to other results
a person that you work with, especially in a profession or a business a colleague of mine from work We were friends and colleagues for more than 20 years. the president and his Cabinet colleagues
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