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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
co-worker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The manual explains what to do if a co-worker is injured and in need of medical attention.
▪ Wantz's job is to teach employees how to handle difficult bosses and co-workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you can do more than stand around the coffee bar and wring your hands with your co-workers.
▪ Cannon and his co-workers launched a fierce attack on James.
▪ If you heard about the job opening from a friend, relative or co-worker, mention that in the opening.
▪ Overall, concern about co-worker dating appears to be very low.
▪ People still want to have the social contact that work offers, and want to stay in regular touch with their co-workers.
▪ She has been described by former co-workers as tenacious, humane, passionate and at times thin-skinned.
▪ Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
▪ When he took the stand, King admitted the rider to the contract was phony but denied responsibility and blamed co-workers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
co-worker

co-worker \co`-work"er\, coworker \co`work"er\(k?`w?rk"?r), n. One who works with another; a co["o]perator.

Syn: colleague, coworker, fellow worker, fellow-worker, workfellow.

Wiktionary
co-worker

n. (alternative spelling of coworker English)

WordNet
co-worker

n. an associate you work with [syn: colleague, fellow worker, workfellow]

Usage examples of "co-worker".

We only need to make it conscious, to live our lives as co-workers within the intrinsic, natural law or patterns of the Creator.

With great difficulty the three spirits were convinced that they had lost their physical bodies, but at last they recognized the truth and were taken away by our invisible co-workers.

Ghattas, a lab tech whose first language was Tagalog, had made a comment to one of his female co-workers that she had interpreted as sexual harassment.

I spent the next day pestering co-workers and clients, and looking through Taranaki phone books and an old diary that had fallen down the back of my desk.

Her twenty-five watt smile switches on and he thinks that though she must wear brighter, toothier smiles for co-workers and relatives, this particular smile measures the true fraction of her joy, all that is left after years of career management and bad love.

Her twenty-five watt smile switches on, and he thinks that though she must wear brighter, toothier smiles for co-workers and relatives, this particular smile measures the true fraction of her joy, all that is left after years of career management and bad love.

I and my co-workers would have yakked about had they actually gotten up from their veal-fattening pens and walked a few carpeted yards over to mine.

Occasionally, however, he'd turn on his brain, act like a regular co-worker and allow her some leeway in dealing with the categorizing of the Professor's finds.

For the last twelve years I've traveled about the United States and I've learned a few things,” remarked Jim Chamberlin, structural engineer and my closest friend and co-worker.

She was a cable TV personality who had a life apart from the family and co-workers he knew only from Christmas parties.

But his two co-workers "continue to believe that two men came in to rent the truck.

She performed her function reliably, with little need for chiding or shouting, and was popular with her co-workers, and that was all he knew about her, really, and all that he figured he needed to know.

While the Iraqi claimed he was never in any bar on NW 10th Street, a co-worker interviewed by KFOR said he had drank with him at a bar on NW 10th and Indiana, and in fact he was arrested for driving under the influence around the corner, at NW 8th and Blackwielder in early June.

He glanced up from the encoded intel-repo and watched with distaste his mysteriously—and rather repellently—gifted proleptic co-worker, Gregory Gloch, in his clanking, whirring anti-prolepsis chamber.

I looked up at them, heartstruck, and I realized that my co-workers think I am dying.