co-workernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkəʊˈwɜː.kər/us/ˌkoʊˈwɝː.kɚ/a person who you work with, especially someone with a similar job or level of responsibility
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Employees & colleagues
- acquihire
- appointee
- associate
- career woman
- colleague
- employee
- hire
- homeworker
- incumbent
- mate
- new blood
- new broom
- operative
- payroll
- shadow
- staffer
- underling
- wage earner
- worker
- working man/woman/person
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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.