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colleague

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE close ▪ 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. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 Word definitions in Wiktionary
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.

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.