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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
colleague
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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▪ Now he preferred him at London, for Bishops of London are by geography close colleagues of archbishops at Lambeth.
▪ It would be chaired by one of his closest Cabinet colleagues, Sir Alexander Campbell.
▪ He had just suggested that his closest colleague might be, in this at least, a traitor.
▪ Publicly, Mr Kinnock's closest colleagues were urging him to remain in post.
▪ His close colleagues were rather less sanguine in private.
▪ He was replaced by a former close colleague turned bitter critic, Donald Kalpokas.
▪ The police surgeon is often a close colleague in general practice.
▪ She had no senior heavyweight figure like Cherwell or Swinton to advise her, and indeed no close colleague at all.
male
▪ Diplomatically, she pointed to where her male colleagues were standing.
▪ Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases.
▪ There was a brief scuffle at the entrance between photographers and a male colleague with the Marquess.
▪ Leslie was hurt after racing to back up male colleagues trying to catch the suspect in Wavertree, Liverpool.
▪ None of these skills are recognized by their male colleagues in the workplace.
▪ Meanwhile it is male colleagues who have largely benefited from this anti-lesbianism.
▪ She was paid as much as her male colleagues, and earned every penny.
▪ Earlier this month a male colleague, also on the holiday, was dismissed.
ministerial
▪ When the case came to ministerial colleagues, it was these arguments that prevailed.
▪ I am sure that one of my ministerial colleagues will want to inform the House tomorrow.
▪ The general impatience among intellectuals, journalists ... And some of your ministerial colleagues?
old
▪ He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome.
▪ It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times.
▪ Arthur Newsholme, Newman's older colleague, had his origins in a similar nonconformist background.
▪ There was a bearer party, old friends and colleagues of Harry's.
▪ An older colleague injured in the leg in the shooting has since been discharged from hospital.
▪ Following the formal presentation tea and sandwiches were available as old friends and colleagues met.
▪ It also carries all the hallmarks of our old colleagues, Karmann of Osnabrück.
senior
▪ If you are new, decide which senior colleagues would support you in your work.
▪ Moreover his senior colleagues shared his vision for change in his division and in Southwest as a whole.
▪ Most of his senior colleagues, and his predecessor, Marvin Runyon, came from the same stable.
▪ Steve and his senior colleagues persisted.
▪ Another of that 1975 troika, Vladimir Skorodenko, is now Genieva's senior colleague.
▪ The appointments committees increasingly rely on recommendations from senior colleagues in the field.
▪ Mr Smith had the overwhelming support of his senior colleagues and the main trades union leaders.
▪ Haslam was backed up by a four-man team of senior colleagues, all of whom were highly professional.
■ VERB
ask
▪ Lastly, general practitioners must feel confident to ask a colleague for advice if poor control of symptoms persists.
▪ Y., also asked his former colleagues not to be discouraged.
▪ To guard the Church's other flank, Taylor was asked by his colleagues to write a book against Roman Catholicism.
▪ They agreed to ask their respective colleagues to come to an air-clearing session in Scottsdale.
▪ Now a group of senior players have asked colleagues who have Easter holiday plans to return for the Orrell game.
▪ If not, ask colleagues you are friendly with to support you if you have to be alone with that person.
▪ Her last evening - last Saturday - I suggested she asked a few hospital colleagues in for pasta, which she did.
▪ None has commented publicly, but they are asking colleagues to come to their defence.
meet
▪ He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome.
▪ At the same time that I met Linda, another colleague at Hunter made an impression on me.
▪ However, it is an ideal opportunity to meet one's colleagues on a regular basis and to discuss matters of concern.
▪ People no longer had access to their shops and offices, nor were they able to meet with their colleagues and neighbours.
▪ You've never considered whether I might be bored stiff meeting your work colleagues.
▪ The social evening held at Royston was very enjoyable, a fine opportunity to meet our colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere.
▪ It is good to meet and discuss with colleagues how your work is going and to enjoy a day of movement together.
▪ Harrison met his party colleagues for a celebration dinner on the outskirts of the city.
tell
▪ Mollie can't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues can't get over the transformation either.
▪ Bliley told his colleagues that the amendment would kill the compromise he struggled to craft.
▪ Stirling's R.A.F. confidant made arrangements for converting the aircraft but did nothing about telling any of his colleagues planning the operation.
▪ I thought it foolhardy and told my colleague John so.
▪ Use community policing, he told his colleagues, and track down the title owners of drug houses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine, Jean-Michel Blanc from our Paris office.
▪ Jenny is a conscientious manager, very popular with her colleagues.
▪ my colleagues at the university
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along with his colleagues, more escapes were planned and other schemes hatched.
▪ Can you imagine him a colleague of yours?
▪ He was scathing in his criticism of colleagues whose work did not match these standards.
▪ In 1985 the Uyghur archaeologist Dolkun Kamberi and his colleagues uncovered five tombs, only two of which had not been looted.
▪ Long was a choleric, short-tempered man who was a constant trial to colleagues in opposition or in power.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colleague

Colleague \Col"league\ (k[o^]l"l[=e]g), n. [F. coll[`e]gue, L. collega one chosen at the same time with another, a partner in office; col- + legare to send or choose as deputy. See Legate.] A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

Syn: Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate.

Colleague

Colleague \Col*league"\ (k[o^]l*l[=e]g"), v. t. & i. To unite or associate with another or with others. [R.]
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colleague

1530s, from Middle French collègue (16c.), from Latin collega "partner in office," from com- "with" (see com-) + leg-, stem of legare "to choose" (see legate). So, "one chosen to work with another," or "one chosen at the same time as another."

Wiktionary
colleague

n. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate. vb. To unite or associate with another or with others.

WordNet
colleague

  1. n. an associate you work with [syn: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow]

  2. a person who is member of your class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers" [syn: confrere, fellow]

Usage examples of "colleague".

Such was the support for Dickinson and the Olive Branch Petition that Adams and his colleagues were left no choice but to acquiesce.

Joe had Afrikaner nationalist colleagues whom, although they knew he and his big-mouthed wife disagreed with them politically, professional buddyhood obliged to put in a word for ,his son.

There was a culture in the Bureau that dismissed the work of earnest brick agents like Nancy Floyd and her colleagues in Minneapolis while rewarding the mean-spirited incompetence of supervisors.

Instead, my mistakes in judgment have delivered Venus to the Guide and her friends, and to my colleague Alim, who would probably bargain with anyone to keep the power he has now.

And likewise no way for the Congolese or their colleagues to determine that antiblack, apartheid South Africa was writing the checks to finance this whole operation.

The antipoverty group lacks the 8,000 pounds a month to hire an LLM or other professional consultants, so Baker and his colleagues must themselves act as lobbyists on behalf of their low-income constituents.

A magistrate, invested with such extensive powers, would have appeared not so much the minister, as the colleague of his sovereign.

Though some of my colleagues may find this approach cumbersome, it will help the less specialized readers share in the archeological experiences and processes that many of us take for granted.

One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.

Wanting to nab an expert astrogeologist, just like they took his colleague a couple of months ago.

The asynchronous nature of e-mail groups also makes them very convenient for even physically close colleagues whose schedules are incompatible.

Ron Robinson, Lucy and Don Fryxell, and others at Augustana College, the University of Minnesota, and Normandale Community College have been friends and colleagues whose mark can be found in and in between sections of this study.

My esteemed colleague Roy Hazelwood has done a lot of research on autoerotic asphyxiation and why it so often ends in death.

He and his colleagues at the OSI had identified a Cleveland autoworker named John Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible.

For Cassidy, there were too many Beltway engagements, too many colleagues to romance and inveigle and bully and cajole into doing the right thing.