colleague

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  1. noun A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate. See Synonyms at partner.

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  • Casey and his colleague were the only "interested parties" to meet with the governor's lawyer before Manchin introduced the bill, Deem said.
  • They split up as they ran away, and by the time Aviles said he reached the SUV, his colleague was already there speaking to a Brady bodyguard. —  Celebrity Mound
  • Due to the elections in Israel, a colleague was there and my newspaper wanted someone else to go to Tehran to cover the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. —  Global Voices Online
  • Kol Aher colleague is assaulted by other Sderotis, as he is interviewed and criticizes the war - and later receives anonymous phone threats and is afraid to return to his car. —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • Former Shippensburg middle school principal Bill Chain said the cruel irony of Shilling's death is that his colleague was always a ray of light during the period when the two men were principals of different district buildings.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French collègue, from Latin collēga : com-, com- + lēgāre, to depute; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French collegue, now collègue = Spanish colega = Portuguese Italian collega, from Latin collēga, conlēga, a partner in office, from com-, with, + legare, send on an embassy: see legate.
  2. from colleague, n.
 

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