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colleague
What does colleague mean?
colleague (noun): a fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use colleague in a sentence?
- He was my colleague. (Tatoeba sentence #10817131 by ddnktr, CC BY 2.0 FR)
Where does colleague come from?
From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theater, vegetable plants in a garden, etc
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a fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate
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a concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle
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the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
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