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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
team-mate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alec and he became friends and team-mates.
▪ In other matches skippers Kim Barnett and Mark Benson scored centuries but were badly let down by their team-mates.
▪ Mansell dominated from pole position and never lost the lead, finishing nearly 10 seconds ahead of Williams team-mate, Riccardo Patrese.
▪ On February 6, 1958, Gregg saw many friends and team-mates die in that fateful crash which stunned the nation.
▪ Or quicker still, send a couple of nifty passes upfield - and you soon learn where your team-mates are.
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team-mate

n. (alternative spelling of teammate English)

Usage examples of "team-mate".

And he shrugged towards his goateed team-mate, who shrugged right back at him.

Two Tottenham players got there ahead of him and began trying to restrain their team-mate, but it was way beyond them.

As much as he trusted his team-mates, he knew the only way he'd be certain of that was to stay close, to take care of her himself.

Shasa was the next best rated player in the country, at four goals, but he lacked the older boy's weight and strength, Max was backed by his strong team-mates, and all Shasa's skill and determination were not sufficient to prevent his team crumbling under the onslaught, leaving Shasa virtually unaided to try and stern the rout.

Before Stephen could reply the first of the casualties came down the after-hatch, carried by his team-mates, a young Marine who had been stationed at one of the after thirty-two-pounders to help run her up - she weighed about three tons - and who had misjudged the speed and force of the recoil.

A small, partisan crowd, a good game, a team of players with a genuine affection for their club (Les didn’t play for anyone else throughout his career, and like most of his team-mates lived in the town) … and when, at the end of the game, the crowd went on to the pitch, it wasn’t intended as an act of aggression, or bravado, or scene-stealing, as pitch invasions so frequently are, but to congratulate the team, all of them brothers or sons or husbands of nearly all of the spectators.