Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One engaged in the same work with another.

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

  • noun One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

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  • noun One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

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

  • noun an associate that one works with

Etymologies

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work +‎ fellow

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Examples

  • ¶ Timothy Acts 16.1 my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosip'ater, my kinsmen, salute you.

    Romans 16. 1999

  • Julia, from her early girlhood, had interested herself deeply in all that concerned the blind, and had become more and more the Doctor's companion and workfellow at the Perkins Institution, where much of his time was necessarily spent.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • On his return from dumping the next load, Newton seemed, in a superior way, quite amiably disposed toward his workfellow -- rather the habitual thing in the neighborhood.

    The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

  • My impression is that it was written before _Demos_, but was longer in finding a publisher; it had to wait until the way was prepared by its coarser and more vigorous workfellow.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

  • 45: 016: 021 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

    The Bible, King James version, Book 45: Romans Anonymous

  • 45: 016: 021 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

    New Etext of Bible [King James Version]

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  • Big Joe’s normal tone is a bellow;

    He shakes down the leaves with his “Hello!”

    His workplace is shared

    By the hearing impaired

    Who think him a perfect workfellow.

    April 12, 2018