Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who works with another; a coöperator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who works with another; a coöperator.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of coworker.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an associate that one works with

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Examples

  • She called her co-worker, who met her at the store and let her inside, leaving the door unlocked.

    Woman killed, another sexually assaulted at Bethesda Lululemon store 2011

  • She called her co-worker, who met her at the store and let her inside, leaving the door unlocked.

    Woman killed, another sexually assaulted at Bethesda Lululemon store 2011

  • She called her co-worker, who met her at the store and let her inside, leaving the door unlocked.

    Woman killed, another sexually assaulted at Bethesda Lululemon store 2011

  • She called her co-worker, who met her at the store and let her inside, leaving the door unlocked.

    Woman killed, another sexually assaulted at Bethesda Lululemon store 2011

  • On an April day in 2009, a Texas man called a co-worker and told him to take a half dozen mounted white-tailed deer and antlers and ȁC;get them out of here.ȁD;

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • On an April day in 2009, a Texas man called a co-worker and told him to take a half dozen mounted white-tailed deer and antlers and "get them out of here."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • David Lindorf wrapped up the essence of the article well in his Counterpunch.com piece published October 18: “Without outright calling their co-worker a liar and a shill for the Bush administration’s war marketing campaign, they left almost no doubt in the reader’s mind not only that this was in fact what she was, but that the Times’ senior management and many of her colleagues at the paper thought exactly the same thing.”

    Fair Game Valerie Plame Wilson 2007

  • Furthermore, that someone is likely to be more than a passing acquaintance, but rather a co-worker, a close friend, a spouse, or a child.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • We suspect that religiously based ties are morally freighted in a way that most secular ties are not, so that pleas for good works giving, volunteering, joining a reform movement, serving as a leader in some civic organization, and so forth seem more appropriate and weightier than comparable requests from a co-worker or someone you know from the gym.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Her co-worker, Rich Juzwiak, rarely watches scripted TV, is a gorehound and became alerted to Martin's existence just recently, as he started researching this new swords-and-sandals well, boots series.

    Houses Collide: A Weekly Game of Thrones Discussion — Who Is Theon Greyjoy? 2011

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