colleague

noun

ˈkä-(ˌ)lēg How to pronounce colleague (audio)
Definition of colleaguenext
as in partner
a fellow worker on her first day at work her colleagues went out of their way to make her feel welcome

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Recent Examples of colleague His firing comes after reporting by the New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News alleged Vanderford used racist slurs in private text conversations with a colleague. — Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Similarly, experiments that Sanchez-Lavega and his colleagues performed with computer simulations of currents in shallow water suggest the decagon formed because of a meandering wave trapped by a curving atmospheric jet. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2026 As the 83rd annual Venice Film Festival kicks off this week, my colleague Bilge Ebiri and I will be on the scene hunting for the next great film to join them. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026 More messages arrived over Discord, X, WhatsApp, and even from a colleague who had been asked by a friend to see whether Fabian would correct his story to say that the explosion had been caused by interceptor fragments. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for colleague
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colleague
  1. partner
  2. coworker
  3. associate
  4. buddy
  5. peer
  6. fellow
Noun
  • In South Korea, Chipotle and its local partner built a supply chain designed to meet the company’s global food quality standards.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the region remains less than the sum of its parts, argued Edward Au, southern region managing partner for Deloitte China, who joined Che on the panel.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of partner
Noun
  • The Moon opposes powerful Pluto, creating tension between your creative instincts and the opinions of friends, coworkers, or a larger group.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Siby had not only lost the coworker who took his shift and much of the community that had carried him through immigrant life in New York.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of coworker
Noun
  • State health authorities who have been fighting the opioid crisis for decades are still surprised by the drop, said Evan Gumas, a senior research associate at the Commonwealth Fund.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Well, this elevated me in Wendell’s eyes from solicitous writer/actor/film associate to a person who works with his/her hands to craft furniture and other heroic implements from wood.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of associate
Noun
  • Then again, being that Vought has been pushing his buddy POTUS to back a federal incentive since May 2025 to little success until today, let’s see what the follow through here really is before anyone starts planning the parade.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The committee would eventually disband without an answer, despite the fact that Selig had helped engineer the sale of the team in 2005 to Lew Wolff, an old University of Wisconsin frat buddy, and John Fisher.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of buddy
Noun
  • He was thrust into the spotlight before most of his peers, because waiting is generally the smart thing to do.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The researchers also suggested that mechanisms should be found to allow honest agents to stop cheating by their peers, not merely to call it out on the message board.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of peer
Noun
  • Stuart Anderson is the executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, where Mark Regets is a senior fellow.
    — Stuart Anderson, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Greenberg joins the ranks of past Circle of Champions honorees including Sephora’s Artemis Patrick; fellow L’Oréal alum Carol Hamilton; FIT’s Stephan Kanlian and more.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of fellow

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